We started an open letter countering some of the incorrect framing about the suspension of Nathan Cofnas. It is a long letter, but we think it is needed to explain the issues. Please sign in support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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Happy to share our new OA paper with @philpaiement.bsky.social. We argue that the courtroom can become one site within a larger praxis of breaking the chains of climate coloniality. Thanks @teljournal.bsky.social for publishing our piece! Access 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What a pleasure to have @juanauz.bsky.social with us at HSU Hamburg to discuss the IACtHR advisory opinion as it connects to the lives, material realities, and fights of social movements in LatAm, especially of indigenous communities. Thank you so much for the brilliant and thought-provoking talk!

Thanks to comrades at @cailesil.bsky.social for inviting us to connect the legal responses to the genocide in Gaza with our own research. It was an important space to identify the possibilities the law might entail for liberation. #ESIL2025

@juanauz.bsky.social explains how the #ICJ and #IACtHR climate opinions forge a blueprint for climate justice together, linking state responsibility, human rights, and reparations, establishing the "groundwork for a new phase of climate litigation.”🌎⚖️ voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-legal-co...

The Legal Consequences of Climate Harm

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Is there any complementarity between the ICJ's and the IACtHR's advisory opinions on climate change? I argue there is, specifically on attribution, causation, and remedies, albeit from specific approaches. Thanks to @voelkerrechtsblog.org for the space and a shoutout to the symposium organizers!

The Legal Consequences of Climate Harm

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“Capital is a process of abstract violence to the materiality of the real world.” - @matthuber.bsky.social

Yes, the ICJ Advisory Opinion is the hot topic, but don't forget about human rights law! For insights on the Inter-American Court’s AO on climate emergency, listen to our chat with comrade @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social on #CalledtotheBar. Thanks to @djag2.bsky.social for this brilliant podcast!

Douglas Guilfoyle@djag2.bsky.social · last yr.

New #CalledToTheBar is live! This week Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Juan Auz to discuss the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency. (This episode was recorded before the ICJ advisory opinion on climate change was handed down.) soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

The ICJ just opened the floodgates for international climate litigation. Now is the time when every single climate-vulnerable state must file a lawsuit against the imperialist fossil fuels axis, namely the US, the UK, OPEC countries, Norway, etc. A new dawn for climate reparations!

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance | by Juan Auz

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance

On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance

On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

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Folks are excited about the groundbreaking Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion. It declares that the prohibition of significant environmental harm is jus cogens. However, do you know what other prohibition is also a jus cogens norm and has been for a long time? Genocide! How is that going?

The Inter-American Court just issued its advisory opinion on the climate emergency, and it is PATHBREAKING! It recognizes the rights: - to a safe climate - of Nature - And environmental protection as jus cogens! Europe: No to a right to a healthy environment, and we are complicit in genocide 🫠

now in material form

“Replacing UN agencies with a private foundation and a private security firm further signals the political reframing of Gaza as a site outside the normal rules of international law.” Thanks, Julia, for such an eloquent and thorough analysis of Israel’s attempts at outsourcing its obligations!

Julia Emtseva@jemtseva.bsky.social · last yr.

So much rage & fury put into this post (but then edited 🙃) The outrageous privatized aid plan for Gaza is a violation of international law and another confirmation that Gaza is being treated as a domestic problem, manageable by extralegal solutions #StopTheBlockade www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...

ICRC's Mirjana Spoljaric: Palestinians in Gaza have been stripped of human dignity.

Gaza worse than hell on Earth, Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day - live updates

The president of the ICRC tells the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity.

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24/🔥The judges have clearly established that the civil responsibility of fossil fuel majors can be engaged in the context of climate related harms. 🎉Here is the legal precedent that the #ClimateJustice had been awaiting - with significance well beyond Germany!

Save the date: Fanon Today: Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives International Symposium Berlin, July 22-23, 2025 organized by @vethompson.bsky.social, @raulzelik.bsky.social & me

Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.

📃 @juanauz.bsky.social analyzes the IACtHR’s landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for violations against the Tagaeri & Taromenane. The judgment advances Indigenous rights and frames the precautionary principle as a justiciable obligation. voelkerrechtsblog.org/precaution-a...

Precaution as Obligation?

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I’m happy to share my insights on the Tagaeri and Taromenane v. Ecuador case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. I analyze the Court's application of the precautionary principle and its potential ripple effects. Thank you @voelkerrechtsblog.org for the space and the editorial support.

Precaution as Obligation?

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i just head from a lil birdie (@pashukanist.bsky.social) that a new book (Rob insists on calling it a pamphlet but if it looks like a book and reads like a book) offering a Marxist analysis of the ongoing struggle in Palestine is about to drop www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Resisting Erasure

This essential read provides clarity on the intertwined relationships of global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression, and challenges readers to rethink their understanding of Palestine. ...

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Exactly this! Climate activists who refuse to integrate anti-genocide and anti-imperialist dimensions in their political discourse and praxis because “it is unrelated” are not safe from fascism. Saving the planet without liberating Palestine is likening gardening to Ecology.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

If they're criminalizing people who are against this, they will absolutely criminalize people who are against the destruction of our planet. See y'all in El Salvador.

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese www.channel4.com/news/we-have...

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese

We spoke to the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, for the Fourcast podcast.

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After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp. The world is watching. History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.

Spirituality without class struggle and anti-imperialism is just alienation.

More genocidal statements from Israeli ministers: Netanyahu Minister: 'Only Solution for Gaza Is to Empty It of Gazans,' God Sent Us Trump to Build Settlements archive.ph/B04pB

This statement is quite discomforting. It is concerning that the organizers of the ESIL2025 conference at FU, the university that censored Albanese and Weizman’s talk, suggested that the censored event was “antisemitic.” The statement is silent on that tactic of silencing. Will FU censor again?

ESIL-SEDI@esil-sedi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Statement on Academic Freedom by Gleider Hernández, President of the European Society of International Law. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/4hTr7bT

THE HAGUE GROUP 🔴 As Israeli tanks roll into the West Bank, Presidents 🇨🇴 Gustavo Petro, 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa, 🇲🇾 Anwar Ibrahim, and Chair Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla explain why they’ve formed The Hague Group to curtail Israel's violations of international law.

Israel’s Actions Strike at the Foundations of International Law

Only collective state action can end impunity.

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If you think leftist rebels are political absentees, meet Leonidas Iza, an Indigenous Marxist who fared quite well in the recent Ecuadorian elections. He chairs the National Indigenous Confederation and led the 2019 strikes against neoliberal austerity. He wrote a materialist account of that event.