The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that countries belonging to the Organization of American States (OAS) ...

A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world's biggest problem to the world's ...

In a landmark climate decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized that the right to a healthy climate is an ...

On 2 May 2025, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) – in collaboration with the African Climate Platform, the Environmental Lawyers Collective for Africa, Natural Justice, and resilient40 – submitted ...

Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

In December 2024, the International Court of Justice agreed for the first time to provide an advisory opinion on what states are obliged to do to fight climate change and set out the legal ...

JURIST Staff, US JULIANA V. UNITED STATES: CASE ANALYIS Climate change is the biggest problem of our time. It is a problem spanning generations and across continents, ...

As a former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice and a judge for over twenty years, it is apparent to me that the most important ...

Amnesty International has issued a report saying a controversial system to distribute aid in Gaza uses starvation tactics ...

As Vanuatu's environment minister, he has taken the decades-long climate fight by Pacific nations to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, hoping to safeguard their islands' survival.

The court affirmed that major emitters ‘can, in principle, be held responsible for climate-related harms,’ says Joy Reyes of LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the ...