On December 15, 2023, refugee and human rights advocates submitted an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) to inform the Court's upcoming Advisory Opinion regarding States' human rights obligations in the context of the unfolding climate emergency. The brief was filed by the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS); the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP); the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies (GCELS) at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University; the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), The University of the West Indies (Mona); Refugees International; Americas Alliance; and Professor Shana Tabak, Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration. Read more ...
