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African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the General Comment on the protection and promotion of the right to environment in Africa in terms of article 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ rights

The focus of this submission is on the right to a healthy environment of environmental human right defenders (EHRD) in Africa. It is a synthesis of the Amicus Brief submission to the request for an Advisory Opinion on African States … Continue reading » “African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the General Comment on the protection and promotion of the right to environment in Africa in terms of article 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ rights”

Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to the Climate Change Crisis – Amicus Brief on Environmental Human Rights Defenders

This brief presents the submission of the Defendbio Legal Clinic with respect to the Request for an Advisory Opinion on African States human rights obligations in addressing the climate crisis submitted to the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights … Continue reading » “Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to the Climate Change Crisis – Amicus Brief on Environmental Human Rights Defenders”

Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-Based Approaches

This publication is the culmination of the Asia Pacific Conference on the Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Human Rights Nexus, hosted by the RWI Regional Asia Pacific Office in 2022. It brings together 13 papers, based on abstracts presented … Continue reading » “Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-Based Approaches”

A Bibliometric Analysis of Research at the Nexus of Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Human Rights

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) has developed this bibliometric analysis of existing literature at the nexus of work on climate change, human mobility, and human rights.

Climate change affects people and communities in a … Continue reading » “A Bibliometric Analysis of Research at the Nexus of Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Human Rights”

Nordic Norms, Natural Disasters, and International Protection

In international law, new norms can emerge through the identification and development of effective practices. This article examines Swedish, Finnish and, less closely, other Nordic countries’ contributions to the slow process of norm emergence in relation to cross-border displacement in … Continue reading » “Nordic Norms, Natural Disasters, and International Protection”

Climate change, disasters and internal displacement in Asia and the Pacific: National Law and Policy Reports

All national law and policy reports from the regional thematic study on displacement in the context of disasters and climate change in ten countries across Asia and the Pacific.

About the study on internal displacement in Asia and the Pacific.… Continue reading » “Climate change, disasters and internal displacement in Asia and the Pacific: National Law and Policy Reports”

Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention

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Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention

Dr Matthew Scott, Head of our People on the Move Thematic Area, has published a monograph examining the application of … Continue reading » “Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention”