I T COULD BE the plot of a kitschy tear-jerker: a group of elderly Swiss ladies sue their government in an international ...
The young people of Montana and the senior women of Switzerland have shown us an effective legal strategy to push our ...
The seeds of this week’s historic victory by an association of elderly women at the European Court of Human Rights were sown in the baking heat of summer 2003. That year, a heat wave killed as many as ...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a group of older women’s human rights were being harmed by the impacts of the ...
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 ...
A recent wave of climate-related court cases could have broad implications for legal systems around the world.
A group of senior Swiss women recently won a powerful victory offering renewed hope for tackling climate change. Earlier this ...
Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed inaction on the climate crisis by their government put them ...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland violated some rights by failing to slow effects of climate change, ...
Switzerland for all its snow-capped mountains and crisp Alpine air has failed to protect its people from the ravages of ...
Europe's top rights court on Tuesday said Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change in a historic decision ...