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Fighting for justice and dignity: Interview with Behrouz Boochani
By Roselina Press
Is Rights-Based Climate Litigation Possible in Australia?
By Sam BookmanLaw has emerged as one the key battlegrounds of the Climate Crisis. As the world heats up, so too have many courtrooms around the world as activists try to hold governments and companies to account for their greenhouse gas emissions
Standing to enforce the right to a healthy environment: what are the barriers and do they matter?
By Bridget LewisThe right to a healthy environment is recognised in over 150 countries and is gaining traction in Australia. At the international level, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) recently adopted a resolution recognising that all people have the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Realising the Right to a Healthy Environment in Australia
By Cristy Clark, Julia Dehm, Beth GoldblattIn a historical resolution on 28 July 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) formally recognised the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. This declaration followed United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution 48/13 of 8 October 2021 that earlier recognized the right to a healthy environment as a human right
The environmental rule of law is fraying
By Bruce LindsayTo many observers who increasingly despair at the limp efforts by governments and corporations to address the climate emergency, environmental law can seem like one of the most viable strategies to meaningfully and swiftly address the crisis. Environmental law, given that it’s concerned with the protection of environmental ‘public goods’ or ‘commons’
Labor’s Mandatory Sentencing Problem
By Michael StantonContributors
Review: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
By Samaya Argüello‘The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology Occupation Around the World’ is a must read for those wanting to understand how the oppression of Palestinians is intertwined with the export of military technologies worldwide.
“Pipelining children into prisons does not make communities safer – it only serves to undermine it and destroy children’s lives in the process.”
Monique Hurley, Human Rights Law Centre