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reasonsforhope · 1 day

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"Tuesday’s [April 9, 2024] definition-shifting court ruling means nearly 50 governments must now contend with a new era of climate litigation.

Governments be warned: You must protect your citizens from climate change — it’s their human right.

The prescient message was laced throughout a dense ruling Tuesday from Europe’s top human rights court. The court’s conclusion? Humans have a right to safety from climate catastrophes that is rooted in their right to life, privacy and family.

The definition-shifting decision from the European Court of Human Rights means nearly 50 governments representing almost 700 million people will now have to contend with a new era of litigation from climate-stricken communities alleging inaction.

While the judgment itself doesn’t include any penalties — the case featured several women accusing Switzerland of failing to shield them from climate dangers — it does establish a potent precedent that people can use to sue governments in national courts.

The verdict will serve “as a blueprint for how to successfully sue your own government over climate failures,” said Ruth Delbaere, a legal specialist at Avaaz, a U.S.-based nonprofit that promotes climate activism...

Courting the courts on climate

The European Court of Human Rights was established in the decade following World War II but has grown in importance over the last generation. As the judicial arm of the Council of Europe, an international human rights organization, the court’s rulings are binding on the council’s 46 members, spanning all of Europe and numerous countries on its borders.

As a result, Tuesday’s [April 9, 2024] ruling will help elevate climate litigation from a country-by-country battle to one that stretches across continents.

Previously, climate activists had mostly found success in suing individual countries to force climate action.

A 2019 Dutch Supreme Court verdict forced the Netherlands to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, while in 2021 a French court ruled the government was responsible for environmental damage after it failed to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals. That same year, Germany’s Constitutional Court issued a sweeping judgment that the country’s 2019 climate law was partly “unconstitutional” because it put too much of the emissions-cutting burden on future generations.

Even in the U.S., young environmental activists won a local case last year against state agencies after arguing that the continued use of fossil fuels violated their right to a "clean and healthful environment."

But 2024 is shaping up to be a turning point for climate litigation, redefining who has a right to sue over climate issues, what arguments they can use, and whom they can target.

To start, experts overwhelmingly expect that Tuesday’s ruling will reverberate across future lawsuits — both in Europe and globally. The judgment even includes specifics about what steps governments must take to comply with their new climate-related human rights obligations. The list includes things like a concrete deadline to reach climate neutrality, a pathway to getting there, and evidence the country is actually on that path...

Concretely, the verdict could also affect the outcomes of six other high-profile climate lawsuits pending before the human rights court, including a Greenpeace-backed suit questioning whether Norway's decision to grant new oil and gas licenses complies with its carbon-cutting strategy.

An emerging legal strategy

In the coming months, other international bodies are also expected to issue their own rulings on the same thorny legal issues, which could further solidify the evolving trend.

The International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights all have similar cases working through the system.

"All these cases together will clarify the legal obligations of states to protect rights in the context of climate change — and will set the stage for decades to come," said Chowdhury, from the environmental law center."

-via Politico, April 9, 2024

#europe #human rights #legal system #international politics #climate change #climate emergency #climate hope #international law #netherlands #france #germany #united states #switzerland #good news #hope

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troythecatfish · 3 days

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equiteesorg · 3 days

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Silence is betrayal.

#humanity #protect black women #no justice no peace #palestine #protect asian lives #nativeamericans #philanthropy #silence is violence #silence is complicity #black lives matter #human rights

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the-catboy-minyan · 2 days

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it's "don't let yourself be radicalized" until you tell them to not support terrorist organisation or wish death onto people they see as evil.

if you think death threats are good when the person "deserves it", you're radicalized.

if you think supporting an organisation that have committed multiple crimes and is known for being terrorists, you're radicalized.

if you dehumanize the other side and believe they're evil/bloodthirsty/animals/brainwashed, you're radicalized.

if you think blind violence against regular people and small businesses is good when it's for the "right" cause, you're radicalized.

if you think children and minors are monsters for being born into a world that taught them to support the opposite side, you're radicalized.

even the most vile person on the planet is still human, if a movement tells you some people are less human because of their race, religion, gender, sexuality, or political beliefs:

YOU ARE BEING RADICALIZED.

#i/p #israel #palestine #politics #human rights #radicalization #people are dying and your solution is to kill/wish death on more people #istg

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violottie · 3 days

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...yes... you read that right. a fucking playground.

reported by Al Jazeera, from Call 2 Action Now, 16/Apr/2024: caption under image

At least twenty Palestinians, including children, died in Israeli strikes in central Gaza. Witnesses say a group of children were playing near the Maghazi Nuseirat refugee camp when the attack happened.

The camp is densely populated and has become even more congested after thousands of families were forced to flee their homes in Gaza’s north after Israel began its assault on the enclave.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah, said the attack on Maghazi took place during “rush hour”. He said the attack hit a playground that is frequently visited by displaced children.

“Dozens” of wounded people have been transported to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, Mahmoud said.

This is the true face of the Occupied State of Palestine (OSP), deranged, murderers!

Keep the pressure on and do not stop until we see an immediate, permanent ceasefire!

#you are a bastard if you think this is at all justified. a fucking bastard #human life #violence against children #this is genocide #please reblog #important #israeli war crimes #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #human rights

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mrsfoone · 2 days

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My semi-sister woke up with a new trans anthem in her brain so I had to write the lyrics. (Please excuse the weird formatting. I'm too lazy to fix it on mobile.)

Transgender Boi

(Sk8tr Boi- Avril Lavigne)

She was a boy

He was a girl

Can I make it any more obvious?

They've got hormones

And shots on weekdays

What more can I say?

She's just a him

He's just a her

No secret there's lots of thems as well

And all of her friends support them with love

They've got no problems with store bought hormones

She's never been a boy

She said "see ya later boy"

Pronouns are not that hard to get

Gender's not in your pants

It's all hormone circumstance.

If they can smile then who's it hurt?

#trans #trans rights #human rights #lyrics #lyrical genius

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odinsblog · 1 hour

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The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought and Israel has worked to prevent.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution. (source) (source) (source)

After the vetoed U.N. membership vote, the Palestinian Ambassador, Riyad Mansour, gave an emotional speech demanding Palestinian statehood. Vanessa Frazier, the Security Council President from Malta, can be seen wiping a tear from her eye. (more)

#politics #palestine #gaza #israel #palestinian statehood #un #united nations #u.n.#self governance #palestinian state #🇵🇸#human rights

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social-battery-low · 22 hours

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U.S. veto strikes again. God, our government is terrible.

#free gaza #free palestine #ceasefire #gaza strip #palestine #abandon biden #gaza genocide #gaza #rafah #joe biden #palestine news #un security council #palestinian genocide #human rights #genocide

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lawlawlaws-blog · 2 days

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PLEASE, GO OUT AND VOTE! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 3 days

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Repost from @jewishvoiceforpeace

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We are compelled to name this out loud: This year, when we gather for our Passover seders, we will be doing so while a genocide is being inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza, by a state that purports to act in the name of the Jewish people.

This year, our seders will be different. The anti-Zionist synagogue @tzedekchicago’s 5784 Passover Haggadah offers some framing:

● If we fail to give the Palestinian people a voice at our table this evening, we will not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover seder…

● If our Passover festival focuses exclusively on Jewish trauma – and not on the ways our trauma is being weaponized to oppress another people, we will not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover seder…

● If we read the Passover story as a story of Jewish liberation alone or - God forbid - Jewish liberation at the expense of others, we will not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover seder…

● If we celebrate this festival by hardening our hearts to the horrifying stories and images from Gaza that have been crying out to us for the past seven months, we will not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover seder…

● If our gathering does not motivate us to do everything in our power to end the genocidal violence Israel is unleashing upon Gaza, we will not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover seder.

One way to stand with Palestinians in Gaza at your seder is to take a pledge in place of the Passover feast (Shulchan Orech). Instead of eating the festive meal, consider fulfilling Shulchan Orech by taking the following actions:

● DONATE the amount that would have been spent on food to UNRWA;

● DEMAND that the Biden administration refund UNRWA.

●CALL ON the Biden administration to facilitate a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now.

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troythecatfish · 1 day

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Washington is exerting pressure on different countries to reject a vote for Palestinian statehood expected to be held today at the United Nations.

Cartoon: Branco

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genuinelyshallow · 1 day

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As I was buying a few things, I got a couple of products that are on the boycotting list, but It slipped my mind

I remembered when I was at the registration. I am always too shy to return something or to cause a delay, but I apologised to the employee and told him I am boycotting these products for Palestine, but it slipped my mind until now and I asked to return them.

He smiled as he applied his employee's 10% discount on my total, saying it was a gift for the boycotters

It works. Don't be ashmed of boycotting. Make it the new normal!

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #jerusalem #palestinian lives matter #social justice #genocide in gaza #save palestine #human rights #us politics

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violottie · 2 days

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look at this girl. how can you justify this? how is this allows? how is this fucking happening?

"The girl Fatima was sleeping when the roof fell down on her after the bombing of the school in the Shate refugee camp today." from Eye On Palestine, 17/Apr/2024:

#violence against children #colonial violence #israel is committing genocide #america is committing genocide #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #human rights

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emanblr · 3 days

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Israel USA UK did all the efforts in their power using billions of dollars and all their combined evilness to rob these people - the people of the tiny strip of Gaza, of everything, food , water homes , electricity all the basic necessities of life and their loved ones and STILL failed to kill their spirits , their resilience.

You have failed miserably ,you terrorist apartheid state of Israel!

#israel is a terrorist state #free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel is an apartheid state #israel is committing genocide #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gazaunderattack #israel #hope #resilience #human rights #people of gaza #important

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lafleshlumpeater · 3 hours

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GUYS.

yes, taylor swift's new album was released today.

yes, watcher is leaving youtube.

yes, yuri on ice is cancelled.

but please don't forget the genocidal massacre going on right now in palestine, don't forget your daily clicks and your donations and your reblogs. don't stop talking about palestine, don't stop boycotting

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taviamoth · 4 hours

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🚨 Head of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Salama Maarouf:

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Gaza City is facing a new environmental disaster that threatens the citizens, adding to a series of disasters caused by the occupation to the Gaza Strip since the onset of its brutal aggression. This disaster is represented by the complete halt of all water wells in the city for the past two weeks due to the depletion of the scant fuel supplies that were available to the Gaza Municipality during the previous period.

With the municipality teams unable to operate the water wells that survived the barbarity and bombing of the occupation, the entire city is now experiencing severe thirst due to the water cut-off, especially with the continued stoppage of water pumping from the "Mekorot" line since the beginning of the aggression and the complete destruction of the desalination station, more than 40 water wells, and 120,000 linear meters of water networks in the city.

This crisis has currently reached its peak with the onset of rising temperatures and increased demand and consumption, which requires urgent intervention from all relevant parties to provide fuel and urgently restore water supply to the citizens, and to save them from severe thirst and the health and environmental crisis that will exacerbate due to the water cut-off.

We call on the international community to put an end to the occupation's crimes against civil service sectors and urge it to urgently move to support the municipalities and provide the necessary equipment and machinery for their operation, especially in light of the heavy burden currently placed on them in serving the citizens and delivering basic services to them, primarily water.

We call for a serious international legal action to investigate all the crimes committed by the occupation army against the municipalities, local councils, and other service institutions, and to take a responsible stance in the face of the continuation of such crimes.

Salama Maarouf

Head of the Government Media Office

Gaza-Palestine

Friday, April 19, 2024

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