How a group of elderly Swiss women won a historic human rights verdict | Hugo Miller & Olivia Rudgard

The seeds of this week’s historic victory by an association of elderly women at the European Court of Human Rights were sown in the baking heat of summer 2003. That year, a heat wave killed as many as 70,000 people across Europe, with a disproportionate number of deaths occurring among…

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