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 “Climate Justice and Future Generations - A Beginners’ Guide” #2 RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS ⚡ What are the “rights of future generations”? The human rights belonging to humans not yet born, but dependent on the actions of the living generations. ⚡ Why are they important? Whether “future generations” are rights holders is one of the central questions in contemporary human rights philosophy, law, and political campaigns. Who is considered a subject of human rights is never a given. Today, one of the major struggles for rights concerns the acknowledgement of “future generations.” 🌟 The issue becomes especially salient when we think of climate change: current generations destroy the planet. Do future generations not have the rights to a clean environment and life recognised for current generations? Indeed, they are particularly vulnerable for rights violations. 💪 In some countries, the rights of future generations are already enshrined in national law. The UNCRC General Comment 26 has also recognised future generations to be rights holders.The Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations adopted in February 2023, make a clear statement of States' and other actors obligations under international and human rights law and are already endorsed by a wide range of global experts and current and former UN mandate holders. Court decisions on climate litigation have recognised either indirectly or explicitly the rights of future generations: 🎯 The First Senate of the German Federal Constitutional Court Decision on “Klimaschutzgesetz (Climate Protection Act), KS” / 2021 highlighted that the German Constitution entails the element of Solidarity. By declaring that the Climate Protection Act was unconstitutional the Court has given an explicit answer that climate solidarity extended to future generations. 🎯 The Colombian Supreme Court Decision on “Future Generations v Colombia” / 2018 examined child rights violations by the State of Colombia and explicitly recognised the environmental rights of the future generations in the decision, based on the ethical duty of solidarity of the species and the intrinsic value of the future. Dive into the rights of future generations: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dP3bpZ_d 👉 https://lnkd.in/djFkrgw7  👉 Hiskes, R. P. (2005). The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and Intergenerational Justice [research-article]. Human Rights Quarterly, 27(4), 1346-1364. 👉 Lewis, B. (2018). The Rights of Future Generations within the Post-Paris Climate Regime [article]. Transnational Environmental Law, 7(1), 69-88.  👉 Lewis, B., & Poff, D. (2023). Human Rights Duties Towards Future Generations and Achieving Climate Justice. Springer International Publishing. Campaign Post #1 Climate Justice, read again: https://lnkd.in/d68c9iAP Global Campus Alumni (GCA) Global Campus of Human Rights

A new Human Rights Bill for Scotland will incorporate 4 international treaties into Scots law, AND the right to a healthy environment. Here, Benji from Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland explains why putting environmental rights into Scots law is so important: https://buff.ly/3PfIOpC #AllOurRightsinLaw

Business and Human Rights book published Robert McCorquodale has published Business and Human Rights, which explores how the responsibility for human rights abuses has transitioned from being a solely state obligation to also being a responsibility of businesses. This responsibility includes adverse human rights impacts arising from environmental and climate change damages. Business responsibility for human rights impacts has become subject both to legislation and to court decisions, including in ground-breaking cases in which Robert and other Brick Court Chambers members have been involved. The book shows the importance of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and its influence on international, EU and various national law. This is a rapidly growing field, for which this book provides a clear and coherent examination of its various elements, and is by someone who has been working in this field for about 30 years. Further details of the book can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eihS7K9Z

Global Competency: Investigate the World Using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a springboard to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (2020)

On the 75th anniversary of the Council of Europe, we join more than 400 civil society organizations calling upon Member States to recognize the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll within the European Convention of Human Rights. We live in a global environmental crisis that currently jeopardizes the #HumanRights of billions of people on our planet. A healthy environment is a prerequisite for the realization of all #HumanRights. That is why it's critical that the Council of Europe explicitly protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll within the European Convention of Human Rights.

I am excited to share a blog post I wrote for Pace International Law Review on Human Rights. This blog post acts as an abstract of the Note I wrote this semester titled Navigating the Tension: Exploring the Clash between International Cultural Traditions and the Enforcement of Universal Human Rights.

Important panel at the UN Human Rights Council about the rights of future generations. Disappointing to see the last draft for the UN Pact for the Future fall behind the progress made at the Human Rights Council in the last years. The Pact needs to include i.a.: - rights rather than just interests - an envoy for future generations - rules for accountability and remedy The Maastricht Principles on The Human Rights of Future Generations provide an example of more meaningful legal language: https://lnkd.in/e_wTfaRG Miloon Kothari Surya Deva

🌎 The landscape of human rights regulations is shifting in the EU and it’s impacting organizations everywhere. How is your business gearing up for these changes? ✏️ Check out our second article in the human rights due diligence series to see what these new regulations mean for you and how to address the challenges ahead: https://lnkd.in/d3gQ2hPc Stay tuned – article 3 is coming soon! Vera Cherepanova #humanrights #duediligence #sustainability

⬇️ Key insights from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk's discussion with FRA Director Sirpa Rautio.   With human rights under pressure in the EU and worldwide, cooperation has never been more crucial. United Nations Human Rights

I am happy to share that Volume 15:2 of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is now available online. This edition is a special issue that I have edited under the framing of "Legalities, rights and imaginaries in an oceanic context", and It carries great papers by Surabhi Ranganathan ("The seabed and the South: from stock stories to new histories of international lawmaking "), Mara Ntona ("The knowledge-power nexus in EU marine governance: from orthodoxy to pluralism by way of the human right to science "), Rachel Bustamante & Michelle Bender ("Reimagining fishing in the Anthropocene through a rights of nature lens") and Christy Clark & Beth Godblatt ("Prefiguring legal alternatives in environmental and climate justice struggles in Australia "). See details and articles here: