The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights marks a legal milestone in the evolution of ...

“We have not created the issue. We are the victims of the issue. However, we are not going to act like victims. We are going ...

Omotola Osude, a Nigerian legal scholar and climate justice advocate, is raising an alarm that is being heard far beyond her ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a landmark ...

It underlined that "the right to a healthy environment" is included among the rights protected by the American Convention on ...

Decision means that around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean – including Argentina – must undertake legal ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday praised the recent advisory opinion on the climate crisis from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) as a ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) published its opinion on Thursday that all countries in the Americas have legal obligations under human rights law to confront the climate crisis.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Organization of American States members must take "all necessary measures" to ...

The ECHR is an important part of the Council of Europe, which is the continent’s foremost human rights institution. Russia was expelled from the council over Moscow’s invasion and war in Ukraine.