Climate inaction violates human rights

DW Climate inaction violates human rights Posted: April 9, 2024 | Last updated: April 9, 2024 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of a group of Swiss elderly women suing their ... Read More

Swiss Climate Inaction Violates Human Rights, European Court Rules

The ECHR decisions are the first of several anticipated rulings from international courts, including the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ... Read More

Court finds Russian ‘foreign agents’ law violates human rights convention

The 2012 legislation, which requires nongovernmental organizations to declare themselves ... based human rights court, arguing the law violates their freedom of expression and association. Many of the ... Read More

UN says NC water pollution violates human rights

The United Nations declaration specifically calls out Chemours and parent company DuPont for contaminating drinking water with toxic chemicals called PFAS disregarding the rights and wellbeing of ... Read More

Climate inaction violates human rights. What ECHR's ruling means for future litigation?

The ruling reinforces the vital role of courts - both international and domestic - in holding governments to their legal obligations to protect human rights from environmental harm," Joie ... Read More

Italy's leader keeps the focus on migration on her fourth visit to Tunisia in a year

European leaders often frame migration as a human trafficking issue ... contingent on the country reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a stalled bailout package that ... Read More

UN says DuPont and Chemours violated human rights in NC, contributed to 'global toxic contamination problem'

DuPont and Chemours violated human rights by contaminating the environment ... contributing to a global toxic contamination problem." DuPont rejected claims that it bears responsibility for ... Read More

Rancid, unsafe water at Illinois prisons threatens health, violates human rights, groups allege

Prisoners’ rights advocates demonstrate outside the ... The allegedly rancid water at Illinois prisons violates the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and the U.S. EPA should step in, the groups ... Read More

Center for International Human Rights Law & Advocacy

The Center for International Human Rights Law & Advocacy at the University of Wyoming College of Law provides opportunities for students to engage with global human rights issues. Since the center’s ... Read More

What Leaders Really Do

They don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. Read More

Human Rights Initiative

It seeks to generate innovative solutions for government, civil society, and the private sector to build respect for human rights and works to integrate human rights priorities across U.S. foreign ... Read More