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 ...
A group of senior Swiss women recently won a powerful victory offering renewed hope for tackling climate change. Earlier this ...
I T COULD BE the plot of a kitschy tear-jerker: a group of elderly Swiss ladies sue their government in an international ...
A European Court of Human Rights ruling last week that Switzerland has failed to protect its people from climate change is ...
Legislators across Europe should pay close attention to the landmark ruling of the European Court of Human Rights against ...
Environment minister Eamon Ryan has changed a statement that he was behind the decision to oppose a group of Swiss senior ...
Over 2,500 senior women from Switzerland have accused their government of not doing enough to combat climate change. The ...
Blattner is a senior ... Bern, Switzerland, and head of the research group on climate law at the university’s Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. On 9 April, the European Court of ...
Analysis - A seven-year campaign by a group of over 2000 Swiss women recently ended. The decision has made waves in Europe.
A similar watershed moment happened in India a month ago, when the Supreme Court of India ruled that people have a right ‘to ...