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Maria Aguinda Salazar y otros v. Chevron Corporation
Tue, 12/11/2013 - 15:15 Instrument
Case concerning liability and reparation for environmental damage caused by Texaco's oil operations in Ecuador.
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ENVIRONMENT: CRIN submission for the CRC's Day of General Discussion on 'children’s rights and the environment'
29/Jul/2016 Publication
The submission contributes information on the different aspects of children’s access to justice in relation to rights violations resulting from environmental damage.  
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Arcelormittal South Africa Ltd v. Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance
Wed, 26/11/2014 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning an environmental organisation's right to access information from a steel and mining company in South Africa.
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Orissa Mining Corporation v. Ministry of Environment & Forest & Others
Thu, 18/04/2013 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the rights of indigenous tribes over land that the state wishes to mine commercially.
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Inter-generational Equity, Children’s Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
Thu, 07/07/2016 - 09:00 Event
Join the Voices of Future Generation’s Initiative and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Change in London on 7 July...
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Day of General Discussion: Children’s Rights and the Environment
Fri, 23/09/2016 - 10:00 Event
During its 69th session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the body of independent experts responsible for...
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Rapporteur Spécial sur les droits de l'homme et les substances et déchets dangereux
22/Mar/2016 Organisation
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UNICEF : Limiter l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants et faire entendre leur voix
5/Jan/2016 Publication
Les enfants sont les principaux concernés par les enjeux climatiques. Pourquoi ?
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UNITED STATES: Combatting climate change with the public trust doctrine
17/Dec/2015 Publication
A group of children brought a petition to Washington’s Department of Ecology, asking them to adopt a rule to limit carbon emissions in their state. After being denied and then ignored they appealed against the Department’s rulemaking process claiming that, to be effective, it would have to be in line with up-to-date climate science.
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Zoe and Stella Foster, et al. v. Washington Department of Ecology
Thu, 19/11/2015 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the duty of the State to protect the right to healthy atmosphere of children in the US state of Washington.
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