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SC/FR 168, 176, 184 & 277/2021 (MV X-PRESS Pearl marine environmental pollution case) (judgment) (24 July 2025)
2025
South Asia Sri Lanka
Access to Information
Marine and Coastal
Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, Advisory Opinion, 2025 I.C.J. (23 July 2025)
2025
Climate Change Advisory opinions Pivotal Cases United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate Emergency and Human Rights, Advisory Opinion AO 32/25, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) No. 32 (May 29, 2025)
2025
Caribbean
Central America
North America
South America
Access to Information
Access to Justice
Climate Change Advisory opinions Greenhouse gases Mitigation Pivotal Cases
Courts International courts and tribunals
Defending Defenders
Economics Ecosystem Services
Environmental justice
Human Rights Inter-American human rights system
International Treaties United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Procedural Issues
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Rights of Nature
Export Processing Zone of Kenya & 10 Ors v The National Environment Management Authority & 6 Ors (Supreme Court of Kenya) (Petition E021 of 2023) [2024] KESC 75 (KLR)(6 December 2024)Supreme Court of Kenya
2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Courts Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Federación Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana v. Petroperú SA, Ministry of the Environment, and others, Superior Court of Justice Loreto, Civil Chamber (29 August 2024)
2024
South America Peru
Access to Justice Standing
Indigenous Peoples
Pollution, Water
Rights of Nature
Water Resources Rivers
U'wa Indigenous People and their members v. Colombia (4 July 2024)
2024
South America Colombia
Access to Information
Courts International courts and tribunals
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Human Rights Inter-American human rights system
Indigenous Peoples ILO 169 Land rights
Land Rights
Mining
Oil & Gas
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland - Application no. 53600/20, Grand Chamber (European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg) (9 April 2024)
2024
Western Europe Switzerland
Access to Justice Standing
Climate Change Litigation United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Human Rights European Court of Human Rights
M K Ranjitsinh & Ors. v Union of India & Ors. Supreme Court of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 838 of 2019 with Civil Appeal No. 3570 of 2022 (judgment) (21 March 2024)
2024
South Asia India
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Energy Renewables
Right to ... Health
Sustainable Development
Wildlife Endangered species
Mussington v. Development Control Authority [2024] UKPC 3, Privy Council Appeal No 0116 of 2021
2024
Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda
Access to Justice Standing
Case of Inhabitants of La Oroya v. Peru, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (27 November 2023)
2023
South America Peru
Access to Information
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Defending Defenders
Human Rights Inter-American human rights system
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Health Healthy Environment Life

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