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Africa’s climate crisis is a legal crisis too: what are states’ duties under human rights law?
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A landmark case before the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights seeks clarification on African governments' legal duties under human rights law to address climate change and transition away from environmentally harmful economic models.
Africa’s climate crisis is a legal crisis too: what are states’ duties under human rights law?
A landmark climate case is being heard by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The request was brought by the Pan African Lawyers Union and other African civil society organisations. They’ve asked the court to issue advice on what responsibilities African governments have to protect their countries against the climate crisis and move away from an economy that harms the environment.
Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala and Tracy-Lynn Field of the Mandela Institute alongside several other organisatio
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