Inter-American Court of Human Rights: children’s rights in the context of the climate emergency

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) is hearing a case on how human rights are protected, within the context of the climate emergency, under the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). We made a submission with the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC), as part of the ACRISL project, focusing on children’s rights.

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Current EU chemicals laws allow severe children’s rights violations. How can we stop this?

Our new report uncovers the links between hazardous chemicals and children’s rights violations in the European Union (EU) and beyond. It sets out how EU chemical laws fail to uphold children’s rights and invites EU decision makers to rethink how to better assess, regulate and restrict those chemicals. Children’s rights violations linked to the exposure to hazardous substances have been neglected for too long. Decision makers now have the opportunity to make things right.

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“Nowhere is safe in Gaza”: The International Court of Justice finds that there are plausible grounds that Israel is committing genocide

On 29 December 2023, South Africa filed a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing the State of Israel of genocide. South Africa argued that the State of Israel has been committing a series of acts with the aim of eliminating the Palestinian population in Gaza.

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