The Environmental Rights Review
The Environmental Rights Review (ERR) is a brand new open-access, online journal hosted by the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
The ERR provides opportunities for scholars and practitioners to write and engage with cutting-edge research on the urgent topic of environmental rights, where interdisciplinary approaches address practical applications, and where ideas can be presented discursively with opportunities for responses and evolution. The ERR is a forum for engaging, changing, critical discussion of environmental rights seen broadly, encompassing a wide array interconnecting issues and questions.
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Are breaches of the Right to a Healthy Environment capable of triggering the Responsibility to Protect in International Law? Exploring the potential of mental health protection as a catalyst
Human rights law emerged in the 19th century in a Westphalian international community characterized by sovereign States. This new area of law revolutionized the legal order. It asserted the importance of the human being, regardless of nationality, as a bearer of specific rights defined by the international order. This emerging philosophy gave rise to a…
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Blog post: The Tortured Politics of Nonhuman Personhood: AI, Animals, Embryos, and Nature
By Joshua C. Gellers Recent developments in the United States – a bill banning legal personhood for nonhumans in Utah and a court decision recognizing frozen embryos as persons in Alabama – reveal the fractured implementation of nonhuman personhood. Scholars have a duty to rectify inconsistencies and clarify concepts to realize the potential environmental, political,…
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Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why Does it Matter?
By Corina Heri, Linnéa Nordlanderand Annalisa Savaresi Between 2021 and 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the General Assembly passed resolutions explicitly acknowledging the ‘right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment’. These recognitions align with developments in the regional human rights frameworks that already enshrined this right. In the wake of these…
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Blog Post: Whose views, science, or laws matter when deciding to kill wolves in Switzerland?
By Kimberley Graham The majority of Swiss citizens voted against weakening legal protections for wolves. Yet, the Swiss government has amended hunting laws to allow the killing of up to 70% of wolves. In 2020, the majority of Swiss citizens voted against weakening national protections for wolves. Despite this result, the Swiss Parliament amended the hunting and protection…
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Mutually-Engaged Wolf-Human Relations: Indigenous Human Rights and Wild Animal Rights in the United States
by Kimberley J. Graham Published in Environmental Rights Review 2(1) pp. 1-18 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10623835 Download the PDF here:
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Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Animal Rights
Open for submission of abstracts until 28 December 2023 Guest Editor Dr Iyan Offor, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham City University. Email: iyan.offor@bcu.ac.uk Theme The second issue of the Environmental Rights Review will focus on the place of animal rights within the landscape of scholarship on environmental rights. Animals have been awarded legal personhood and/or legal rights in various…
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Editorial to the first volume of the Environmental Rights Review
It is with great excitement that we find ourselves writing the editorial of the first volume of the new Environmental Rights Review, an open-access, online journal hosted by the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
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How Recognition and Implementation of the Right to a Healthy Environment Can Advance the Human Rights of Migrants
The relationship between climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, on the one hand, and migration and displacement, on the other, is a human rights topic of critical and growing importance. However, the conversation around environment and migration has tended to focus on security thus far. The humanity and agency of those who may…
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What would a favorable ICJ AO look like and what would it mean for the progressive development of international law and broadly for climate action?[1]
by Maria Antonia Tigre[2] Published in Environmental Rights Review 1(1) 2023 pp 41-44 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301814 Download PDF here: Distinguished guests, and esteemed colleagues, it is an honor to stand virtually before you, today, as we gather to acknowledge the tremendous efforts of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and the World’s Youth for xClimate Justice.…
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Speech given by Katrina Bullock to representatives from over 22 countries at the launch of the Youth Climate Justice Handbook in the Hague on 20 June 2023
Three years ago, I sat choking on the thick black smog that filled my lungs and smothered my city. The Black Summer Bushfires were raging. Pregnant women were ordered indoors for fear of the impact the smoke inhalation would have on their unborn babies. 3 billion animals died or were displaced. 34 people perished. Thousands…
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