Advancing Environmental Justice: The Supreme Court of Kenya holds State Agencies Accountable for Environmental Harm in Owino-Uhuru case
On 6th December 2024, the Supreme Court of Kenya affirmed the constitutional rights to a Clean and Healthy Environment and the highest Sustainable Standard of Health Care and Sanitation as...
#CancelCoal: South African Youth Successfully Lead Climate Case Against Proposed Coal-Fired Power Station
On 4 December 2024, the High Court of Pretoria in South Africa (SA) handed down a landmark judgment in the “Cancel Coal” case. The High Court upheld a constitutional challenge...
A Climate Policy Under Fire: Germany’s NECP Lawsuit and EU Climate Governance
The Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ‘DUH’), a non-governmental environmental and consumer protection organisation in Germany, has intensified its legal challenges against the German government by filing a lawsuit over...
Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice – Climate Injustice: A Gendered Global Crisis
Oxford Human Rights Hub · Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice – Climate Injustice: A Gendered Global Crisis In this two-part podcast series, we are exploring why efforts to mitigate climate...
Business and Human Rights: A Cautious and Promising Interpretation of the French Vigilance Law
In rulings issued on 18 June 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal deemed admissible the actions brought by several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) against the French multinationals TotalEnergy and EDF on...
ReBuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine
This is a four part series on the project “ReBuilding Ukraine For All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine,” led by Professor Freya Baetens, Dr. Ievgeniia Kopytsia, and Dr. Daryna...
Rebuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine – Just Energy Transition
Oxford Human Rights Hub · Rebuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine – Just Energy Transition This is the final episode in a four part series on...
The Right to Water in the European Blue Deal: A New Constitutional Challenge
There is a narrow catalogue of goods and values which represent fundamental importance for human survival, dignity and protection of life; consequently, these should be guaranteed and respected within international...
Australia inches closer to a national Human Rights Act
Australia is the only western liberal democracy without some form of federal charter of human rights. That may soon change, with a recent parliamentary inquiry recommending a federal Human Rights...
Constitutionalising Climate Action: India’s Supreme Court Decision on the Protection against Climate Change
Should climate change safeguards be enshrined as a human right? India’s Supreme Court seems to have resounded a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of M K Ranjitsinh and Others v...
The Principle of Systemic Integration at the ECtHR after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz
On April 9 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) issued a landmark ruling in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v Switzerland, marking...
Extraterritorial Human Rights and Climate Change at the ECtHR: The End of the Road?
On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) handed down its judgment in the case of Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 Other...
