EUROPE—In a groundbreaking decision, Europe’s highest human rights court ruled in favour of a group of 2,000 Swiss women, all aged 64 and older, who accused their government of failing to adequately ...
Our cases coasted to the height of Europe’s top human rights court. Now we need to unite behind the ruling and force all ...
As a member of the Council of Europe, Switzerland can get involved in pan-European politics even though it’s not a member of ...
The women, all over 65, argued they were especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. An international court ...
The political battle against climate change has, so far, largely been driven by government legislation and regulation.
EUROPE—In a groundbreaking decision, Europe’s highest human rights court ruled in favour of a group of 2,000 Swiss women, all aged 64 and older, who accused their government of failing to adequately ...
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 ...
EUROPE—In a groundbreaking decision, Europe’s highest human rights court ruled in favour of a group of 2,000 Swiss women, all aged 64 and older, who accused their government of failing to ...
Litigation, along with electoral politics and popular protest, is becoming a key tool in the fight against climate change.
IT COULD BE the plot of a kitschy tear-jerker: a group of elderly Swiss ladies sue their government in an international court over greenhouse-gas emissions, and win. On April 9th the European ...
In a landmark ruling Tuesday, Europe’s top human rights court ruled in favor of a group of elderly Swiss women ... Sam Hunter-Jones, a senior lawyer from the green charity ClientEarth, which currently ...
PREMIUM Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the announcement of decisions after a hearing of the European Court of ... on the Swiss Government before ...