A case involving thousands of retired Swiss women is being heard at a European Court in France, the culmination of a six-year legal battle in which they claim their government's inadequate action on climate change violated their human rights. The case, which campaign group Greenpeace initiated on behalf of the women, opened on Wednesday in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Six lawyers, including two elite UK King's Counsel lawyers alongside the original team, have prepared the case. Here are some of their arguments: - The case documents, or application in EU legal jargon, alleges four violations of the European Convention of Human Rights (Arts 2, 6, 8 and 13) including the right to life. - They say the women's age and gender places them in one of the categories cited by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as being at highest risk of temperature-related mortality.
A case involving thousands of retired Swiss women is being heard at a European Court in France, the culmination of a six-year legal battle in which they claim their government's insufficient action on climate change violated their human rights.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A case involving thousands of retired Swiss women is being heard at a European Court in France, the culmination of a six-year legal.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A case involving thousands of retired Swiss women is being heard at a European Court in France, the culmination of a six-year legal.