Legal Blog
The WYCJ Legal blog publishes contributions on the climate crisis and its impacts on youth's rights and the environment.
We try to enhance collaboration between actors—lawyers, academics, and non-governmental organisations—related to climate action, the intergenerational equity principle, or WYCJ’s campaign.
The WYCJ Legal blog aims to create momentum around WYCJ’s initiative by producing legal content referring to the implementation of a rights-based approach to the climate crisis and the utilization of international legal mechanisms to clarify and develop international environmental law.
Submission to Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change
By the Legal Taskforce
23/5/23
WYCJ submitted a memorandum in response to the Call for inputs by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change.
Youth for Ecocide Law Collaborate with World’s Youth for Climate Justice and discuss important issues
By Maëlle Blacharz.
Laila Martins from Youth for Ecocide Law (Y4EL) raises important issues that are integral to both youth campaigns.
World’s Youth for Climate Justice collaborates with Youth for Ecocide Law and discusses important issues
By Laila Martins (Y4EL)
23/5/23
WYCJ’s Maëlle Blacharz and Aditi Shetye talk about the importance of youth participation and mobilisation.
Climate change in the Inter-American Court: from the causalist perspective of transboundary environmental damage to the multi-causality of climate change.
By Harold Miñarro Escalona.
In December 2022, Colombia and Chile asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for an advisory opinion on States' obligations under the American Convention on Human Rights in the face of the climate emergency.
El cambio climático en la Corte Interamericana: de la perspectiva causalista del dañoambiental transfronterizo a la multicausalidad del cambio climático.
By Harold Miñarro Escalona.
En diciembre 2022, Colombia y Chile solicitaron a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos una opinión consultiva sobre las obligaciones de los Estados de conformidad con la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos frente a la emergencia climática.
Ask the Expert: Analyzing the UNGA Resolution Asking the ICJ for Advisory Opinion on Climate Changeand Supporting the Campaign of WY4CJ
By M. Hafijul Islam Khan and Moumita Das Gupta.
This blog discusses final draft of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution by asking the International Court of Justice for Advisory Opinion on Climate Change.
Ask the Expert: Vanuatu’s Proposed Request For an Advisory Opinion from the World Court
By Aleksandra Balyasnikova-Smith.
In November 2022 Vanuatu, on behalf of a group of States, put forward a draft Resolution containing a request for an advisory opinion to be sought from the International Court of Justice.
How the UNGA’s landmark Resolution Recognising Clean, Healthy, Sustainable Environment as Human Right will bolster Climate Action?
On 28 July 2022, by a recorded vote of 161 in favor and zero against, with eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right. The UNGA called upon States, international organizations, businesses, and other stakeholders to “scale up efforts” to ensure a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment for all.