World Court governance
new 12/16
see ICC ct ICJ justice Ct
sort of backup for UN, but i also refound int'l superheading
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specifically triggered by PI human rights on Yolanda sues energy corps
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On Tuesday (9 April), a group of elderly Swiss women , called KlimaSeniorinnen or Senior Women for Climate Protection, won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. Europe's top court ruled that Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.Apr 10, 2024
'Swiss grannies' win climate case: How climate litigation is ...
Firstpost
https://www.firstpost.com › Explainers](https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/swiss-grannies-climate-case-litigation-rising-world-unep-13758187.html#::text=On%20Tuesday%20%289%20April%29%2C,targets%20had%20been%20woefully%20inadequate.)
Swiss women win landmark climate case at Europe top ...
Reuters
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Apr 9, 2024 — The Swiss women, known as KlimaSeniorinnen and aged over 64, said their government's climate inaction put them at risk of dying during heatwaves ...
Elderly Swiss women bring European court's first climate ...
Reuters
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Mar 30, 2023 — Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case heard on Wednesday at the European Court of Human Rights, ...
Heat Waves Are Killing Older Women. Are They Also ...
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › World › Europe](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/europe/heat-wave-older-women-lawsuit.html)
Aug 7, 2023 — A group of Swiss women over 64 has filed a lawsuit against Switzerland with Europe's top human rights court, saying the country has violated ...
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Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR ...
The Guardian
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Apr 9, 2024 — Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed weak policies put them at greater risk of death from heatwaves.
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https://www.democracynow.org/2021/9/27/headlines/vanuatu_to_ask_for_icj_opinion_on_climate_crisis
Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu is asking the International Court of Justice to weigh in on the rights of its people to be protected from the climate catastrophe. Prime Minister Bob Loughman addressed the U.N. General Assembly Saturday.
Prime Minister Bob Loughman Weibur: “Limiting warming to near 1.5 degrees will be beyond reach. The issues are increasingly eluding the control of individual national governments.”
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https://theconversation.com/how-ceos-experts-and-philosophers-see-the-worlds-biggest-risks-differently-128382
We live in a world threatened by numerous existential risks that no country or organization can resolve alone,such as climate change, extreme weather and the coronavirus.
But in order to adequately address them, we need agreement on which are priorities – and which aren’t.
As it happens, the policymakers and business leaders who largely determine which risks become global priorities spent a week in January mingling in the mountainous resort of Davos for an annual meeting of the world’s elite.
I participated in a global risk assessment survey that informed those at the Davos summiton what they should be paying the most attention to. The results, drawn from experts in a broad range of disciplines including business, happen to be very different from what company CEOs specifically see as the biggest threats they face.
As a philosopher, I found the differences curious. They highlight two contrasting ways of seeing the world – with significant consequences for our ability to address societal risks.
Two perspectives on the biggest risks
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report consolidates the perceptions of about 800 experts in business, government and civil society to rank “the world’s most pressing challenges” for the coming year by likelihood and impact.
In 2020, extreme weather, a failure to act on climate change and natural disasters topped the list of risks in terms of likelihood of occurrence. In terms of impact, the top three were climate action failure, weapons of mass destruction and a loss of biodiversity.
The specific perspective of corporate leaders, however, is captured in another survey that highlights what they perceive as the biggest risks to their own businesses’ growth prospects. Conducted by consultancy PwC since 1998, it also holds sway in Davos. I’ve been involved in that report as well when I used to work for the organization.
In sharp contrast to the World Economic Forum’s risk report, the CEO survey found that the top three risks to business this year are overregulation, trade conflicts and uncertain economic growth.
Economic or ethical
What explains such a big difference in how these groups see the greatest threats?
I wanted to look at this question more deeply, beyond one year’s assessment, so I did a simple analysis of 14 years of data generated by the two reports. My findings are only inferences from publicly available data, and it should be noted that the two surveys have different methodologies and ask different questions that may shape respondents’ answers.
A key difference I observed is that business leaders tend to think in economic terms first and ethical terms second. That is, businesses, as you’d expect, tend to focus on their short-term economic situation, while civil society and other experts in the Global Risk Report focus on longer-term social and environmental consequences.
For example, year after year, CEOs have named a comparatively stable set of narrow concerns. Overregulation is among the main three threats in all but one of the years – and is frequently at the top of the list. Availability of talent, government fiscal concerns and the economy were also frequently mentioned over the past 14 years.
In contrast, the Global Risk Report tends to reflect a greater evolution in the types of risks the world faces, with concerns about the environment and existential threats growing increasingly prominent over the past five years, while economic and geopolitical risks have faded after dominating in the late 2000s.
A philosophical perspective
Risk surveys are useful tools for understanding what matters to CEOs and civil society. Philosophy is useful for considering why their priorities differ, and whose are likelier to be right.
Fundamentally, risks are about interests. Businesses want a minimum of regulations so they can make more money today. Experts representing constituencies beyond just business place a greater emphasis on the common good, now and in the future.
When interests are in tension, philosophy can help us sort between them. And while I’m sympathetic to CEOs’ desire to run their businesses without regulatory interference, I’m concerned that these short-term economic considerations often impede long-term ethical goals, such as looking after the well-being of the environment.
An uncertain world
Experts agree on at least one thing: The world faces dire risks....
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/mike-pompeo-celebrates-the-defeat-of-an-international-probe-into-possible-u-s-war-crimes/
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Mike Pompeo celebrates the defeat of an international probe into possible U.S. war crimes
Written by Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams August 28, 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday affirmed President Donald Trump’s disdain for the International Criminal Court when he appeared to boast of the White House’s successful bullying effort to stop the court from launching a probe into possible war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Pompeo made the remarks in a “Celebrating Americanism in Our Foreign Policy” speech at the American Legion National Convention in Indianapolis
“Americanism means taking care of our own,” said Pompeo.
“We stopped international courts from prosecuting our service members,” Pompeo continued, adding that the potential probe “was an outrage.”
In April, the ICC announced that it rejected a probe into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. Outgoing ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda requested the investigation in 2017, saying at the time that there was a “reasonable basis to believe” that war crimes were committed by the Taliban, Afghan National Security Forces, U.S. armed forces, and the CIA. That move won the praise of human rights organizations and triggered over one million statements from alleged Afghan victims.
But the potential prosecutions also prompted threats from the White House, with Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, warning of sanctions against ICC officials if they moved ahead with probes into U.S. or Israeli war crimes.
Pompeo confirmed earlier this year that the administration would revoke or deny visas for ICC personnel who try to investigate or prosecute U.S. officials or key allies for potential war crimes. A month later, in April, the administration followed through and revoked prosecutor Bensouda’s visa for entry into the U.S.
Trump, for his part, celebrated the rejected war crimes probe as an “international victory.”
Human rights groups had a notably different takeaway.
“It is outrageous,” said Jamil Dakwar, director of ACLU’s group’s human rights program, “that victims of war crimes are far less likely to get justice for well-documented atrocities because of the Trump administration’s authoritarian efforts to sabotage an investigation before it could even get started.”
“No one except the world’s most brutal regimes win,” Dakwar said, “when we weaken and sabotage international institutions established to fight impunity and hold the human rights abusers accountable.”
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