Law

Recent victories in the courts show how a human rights framework can be an instrument to fight suffering and injustice.

The fight to have ecocide recognised as a crime against humanity is finally yielding results in international law, but enforcement and proportionality remain uncertain.

Raisa Galea explores the contradictions of a debate which is bound to questions of national identity, morality and sovereignty.

A legal system that prioritises the conservation of the living world over private property would be a powerful tool for ecological transition.

TTIP has become notorious over recent years. From Brussels to Berlin, Warsaw to Barcelona, more people know what these four letters stand for today more than ever before.

In 2013, Rui Tavares, then Portuguese Member of the European Parliament among the Greens-EFA group, put forward a report that investigated the threats to fundamental rights that Orban’s government had given rise to in Hungary since 2010, and proposed mechanisms for a common European response to such actions, both in Hungary and potential future similar cases.