A UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new guidelines to prevent some of the environmental damage and human rights abuses associated…
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Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to…
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In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have…
View More ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes
The international criminal court (ICC) has been urged to start investigating and prosecuting individuals who harm the environment. Academics, lawyers and campaigners from around the…
View More Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimesEnvironmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28
Incidents of harassment, surveillance, threats and intimidation are creating a climate of fear at UN events including the recent Cop28 climate conference in Dubai, experts…
View More Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28UK one of 32 countries facing European court action over climate stance
A key plank of the UK government’s defence against the biggest climate legal action in the world next week has fallen away as a result…
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Six young people are preparing to appear at the European court of human rights to try to compel 32 nations to rapidly escalate their emissions…
View More Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policiesLabour explores plan to make clean air a human right with new legislation
A new wave of human rights legislation to guarantee clean air quality and nutrition could be rolled out by the next Labour government, under plans…
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UK companies operating overseas are afforded far greater legal protections than the citizens of the countries they invest in, leading to corporations getting away with…
View More UK firms using legal muscle to facilitate human rights and climate abuses – report‘It’s a human rights issue’: young adults take Portugal climate crisis to court
Cláudia Agostinho has been going to Pedrogao beach since she was a child. Back then it was a stretch of silver white sand sandwiched between…
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