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 ...
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 ...
Presented by Hannah Moore with Isabella Kaminski; produced by Tom Glasser, George McDonagh and Solomon King; executive producer Elizabeth Cassin Last week a group of older women successfully ...
Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity for his role ...
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VIENNA, April 20 (Reuters) - A European Court of Human Rights ruling last week that Switzerland has failed to protect its people from climate change is hard to reconcile with direct democracy, the ...
The court agreed, ruling that the Swiss state's climate policy failures violated Article 8 of the European rights convention, which guarantees the "right to respect for private and family life ...
The Swiss government wants to be able to sidestep the country’s rigid neutrality to allow more weapons exports but will ...
The landmark ruling against Switzerland for climate inaction confirmed governments’ obligations to lower greenhouse gas ...
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 ...
GENEVA (AP) — Advocacy group says Swiss court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia over his role in years of repression.