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 women, all over 65, argued they were especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. An international court ...
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 ...
The young people of Montana and the senior women of Switzerland have shown us an effective legal strategy to push our ...
As a member of the Council of Europe, Switzerland can get involved in pan-European politics even though it’s not a member of ...
GENEVA/ZURICH - Switzerland ... the government before the court, said it must be implemented. It said it will analyse the ruling to determine the measures the country needed to take.
The president of the European Court ... While the court stated that the Swiss were in violation of the convention, the penalty was minimum. The Swiss government was ordered to pay EUR 80,000 ...
The European Court of Human Rights's ruling ... "The extent to which Switzerland relies on those is just huge," Charlotte Blattner, a senior lecturer and climate law expert at the University ...
Europe’s top ... and older – are known in Switzerland as KlimaSeniorinnen (climate seniors). The women brought the case against their government in the European Court of Human Rights, arguing ...
Strasbourg, France: Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that the Swiss government had violated ... Swiss member of Senior Women for Climate Rosmarie Wydler-Walti, right, talks to Swedish ...
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 ...