African Court Should Protect People Displaced by Climate Change

Decision Could Promote Rights-Based Adaptation, Durable Solutions The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is poised to issue an advisory opinion on states’ human rights obligations in the climate crisis. This is an opportunity to strengthen protections for people displaced by climate change and to call for a rights-respecting approach. A petition filed in May […]

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African Court Challenges States To Rethink The Basis Of Their Criminal Laws

By Anneke Meerkotter, Litigation Director, Southern Africa Litigation Centre On 4 December 2020, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued an Advisory Opinion which challenges the very notions which underpin our class-based societies. The African Court stated that there is no reasonable basis for a law that distinguishes between so-called ‘vagrants’ and the […]

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