Economic Social Cultural Rights

In October 2024, the Committees on the Rights of the Child (CCRC) and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) published their Views in three communications against Finland. Both Committees concluded that the country had violated the rights of individuals in the Kova-Labba Siida (a Sámi community) by granting a…

On 28 August 2024, the Falepili Union Treaty between Tuvalu and Australia entered into force. As the first climate resettlement treaty ever adopted in history, providing a defined climate mobility pathway, this peculiar legal instrument on climate cooperation offers numerous reflections enshrined in its first four articles (e.g. the recognition of Tuvalu’s…

Humanity now stands at a total population of 8.1 billion, of which 2 billion are mothers. Apropos of this year's Christmas celebrations throughout the Christian part of humanity, I've often had occasion to observe to my students that the classic Nativity story is also a stirring narrative of how the birth of Jesus Christ occurred…

Perhaps more than any other time in the history of the International Court of Justice, international human rights law has never been more ubiquitously and stridently deployed at the World Court by so many States, several of whom do not necessarily have the usual nationality linkages when it comes to the assertion of injuries and harms from asserted…