The European ... Swiss Federal Office of Justice, which represented the Swiss government at the court, took note of the ...
EUROPE—In a groundbreaking decision, Europe’s highest human rights court ruled in favour of a group of 2,000 Swiss women, all aged 64 and older, who accused their government of failing to adequately ...
The climate crisis case is part of a growing trend of communities suing government entities on the basis of human rights.
Plenty of Conservatives disagree with calls to leave the court, however — pointing out that doing so would leave Britain as something of a legal pariah, in a group with Russia, Belarus and Vatican ...
The court ruled in favor of over 2,000 senior women from Switzerland who argued ... make very clear that the European states have a legal responsibility to take real climate action and to protect ...
Experts said it was the first time an international court determined that governments were legally obligated to meet their ...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland violated some rights by failing to slow effects of climate change, ...
A motley crew of Portuguese children, retired Swiss women and a French mayor have filed a trio of cases in an attempt to ...
A recent wave of climate-related court cases could have broad implications for legal systems around the world.
The European Court of Human Rights found that climate change is a human rights issue, providing a blueprint for Europeans to ...
The court faulted Switzerland for not giving sufficient protection to the Senior Women for Climate Protection. The case sets ...
A European Court of Human Rights ruling last week that Switzerland has failed to protect its people from climate change is hard to reconcile with direct democracy, the Swiss environment minister said ...