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 ...
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 young people of Montana and the senior women of Switzerland have shown us an effective legal strategy to push our ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government's inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them ...
Europe's top human rights court ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who said their government violated their ...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a group of older women’s human rights were being harmed by the impacts of the climate crisis The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in ...
Verdict will have ripple effect in Europe and beyond, likely setting precedent for how courts deal with climate cases.
In Strasbourg, France, the European Court of Human Rights handed out one victory and two defeats for the climate justice movement today as it ruled on three historic climate cases. The court ruled ...
A group of elderly Swiss women made history on Tuesday when they became the first plaintiffs to win a climate-related victory in the European Court of Human Rights. Representing a group of more ...
Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed inaction on the climate crisis by their government put them ...
By Gloria Dickie, Kate Abnett and Christian Levaux STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) -Europe's top human rights court ruled on ...