This year, the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) — the world’s highest court — is hearing its first argument about climate commitments. In an effort to make sure countries and ...

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

[Esther Jeruto, Standard] Human rights activists ... Environmental Developmental Watch Kenya (SuSwatch) said there is a need to implement prioritised projects as outlined in the Participatory ...

Nature-based solutions use nature to solve environmental problems caused by humans, such as global climate change. But not ...

Those who have worked to combat climate change for years believe they are well-prepared to challenge executive orders that ...

Climate change and displacement are increasingly interconnected. As extreme weather events and environmental conditions worsen with global heating, they are contributing to multiple and overlapping ...

On April 9, the European Court of Human Rights ... effects of climate change as a human right under European law. The opinion, directed at Switzerland, was praise by climate activists as a ...

Montana’s permitting of oil, gas and coal projects without consideration for climate change violates residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment, the state’s Supreme Court ruled ...

There is a growing movement in climate change circles to tie the protection from the impacts of climate change to human rights ... and in particular young environmental defenders, especially ...

The Nigerian government is in talks with local communities to restart oil production in a region that’s previously suffered ...

MADISON (WKOW) – A coalition of native water rights and climate justice activists demonstrated ... before they can have adverse impacts on the surrounding environment. But the focus of the activists ...