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Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR

September 26, 2025

In the shadows of the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, Strasbourg has been busy with climate cases too – busy, mostly saying no. Published on 28 August 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared Engels and Others v. Germany, a follow-up to Germany’s Neubauer litigation, inadmissible. The decision leans heavily on the demanding victim-status test set in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland and, for the first time, places notable weight on “personal adaptation”. It follows this spring’s inadmissibility decisions in De Conto and Uricchio, and sets the remaining hopes higher for one particular climate case with priority status before the ECtHR: Müllner v. Austria. This post outlines why, in my view, the Müllner climate case has the potential to become the ECtHR’s most promising post-KlimaSeniorinnen opportunity to affirm individual victim status, resist burden-shifting through “personal adaptation”, and require Austria to adopt an enforceable framework in light of its ongoing shortfalls, which could have potential implications for all EU Member States.

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Prosecuting Atrocity Crimes Committed in Northern Ethiopia: The Need for Special National Prosecution Mechanism

April 4, 2022

Over the last four years, serious human rights violations and abuses, have been committed in Ethiopia in and outside of the context of an armed conflict. These violations may constitute international crimes, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. The situation particularly worsened and garnered international attention after an armed conflict broke out in Tigray on…

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The International Court of Justice’s 2022 Reparations Judgment in DRC v. Uganda: ‘Global Sums’ as the New Device for Human Rights-Based Inter-State Disputes

February 14, 2022

On 9 February 2022, the International Court of Justice issued its much-awaited Reparations Judgment in Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda) [hereafter, "2022 Reparations Judgment"], awarding the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the global sum of US$330 Million as total compensation for damage caused by Uganda's violations…

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A Handy Illusion? Interpretation of the ‘Unlikely to Bring Effective Relief’ Limb of Article 7(e) OPIC by the CRC in Saachi et. al.

November 1, 2021

In an EJIL Talk! blog post, Aoife Nolan laid out the salient aspects of the five inadmissibility decisions in Saachi et al. v. Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey delivered by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on 8 October 2021. Her post focussed on how the Committee handled key…

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SDG Report 2020: The Civil, Political, Economic, Social, Cultural, and Development Rights Crises Deepening in the Global South

July 15, 2020

The United Nations recently released its Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020, and the results are expectedly grim during this global pandemic.  Not only has the world fallen well off track from Agenda 2030 objectives - including the eradication of poverty - but the deepening inequalities within the Global South augur even worse outcomes for the most vulnerable populations on…

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