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Environment and CLIMATE CHANGE

GLAN considers the most fundamental violations of human rights to be structural and longstanding. The ability for individuals to lead healthy and secure lives is undermined by systems of economic exploitation and environmental harm. Climate change, and the effects it will have on the poorest populations, is perhaps the major challenge the international (legal) system is facing. We are determined to mobilise our expertise in innovative ways to challenge those exacerbating, and profiting from, environmental and economic injustice.
Our Activities
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EUROPE
YOUTH4CLIMATEJUSTICE

GLAN filed an unprecedented application with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of six young people in Portugal against 32 countries for failing to take urgent action 

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EUROPE
CLIMATE CRISIS

GLAN and CAN Europe legally challenge European Commission to up EU climate ambition. The request underlines that the EU´s overall climate ambition remains alarmingly off-track.

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UKRAINE
WAR & CLIMATE CHANGE
 

Complaint filed with European Ombudsman over EU imports of Russia fossil fuels driving war in Ukraine & climate change

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ANTIGUA & BARBUDA

LAND GRAB

Complaint filed with Ramsar Secretariat calling for international mission over US developers’ luxury residences & golf course on Barbuda wetland 

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Simultaneous complaints filed in Australia, Switzerland, Ireland & UK against business entities linked to Cerrejón coal mine, Colombia

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IRELAND & GHANA

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS & TAX POLICY

Following our submission UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to examine overseas impact of Ireland’s tax policies 

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