For the communities most affected by climate change, the ruling offers a pathway to accountability, recognising climate harm as an issue of rights and justice. The era of treating climate action as a ...

CLIMATEWIRE | A landmark ruling Tuesday by a European human rights court will likely pave the way for future lawsuits that could force countries to act more quickly to cut their planet-warming ...

A group of lawyers and civic organisations have formally asked the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to issue an advisory opinion on the obligations of African states to protect ...

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting away scrutiny by ...

The European Union’s diplomatic service, European External Action Service (EEAS), concluded in a report Friday, finding that Israel may have violated its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel ...