1. Increasing Human Rights Safety to Non-Human Topics? Animals, Nature, Firms, and Robots as (Potential) Human Rights Topics Symposium. The Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) is holding a symposium on “Increasing Human Rights Safety to Non-Human Topics? Animals, Nature, Firms, and Robots as (Potential) Human Rights Topics’ (8 June, on-line participation is feasible). The symposium will think about the completely different regional human rights approaches to world challenges such because the planetary environmental crises, the globalisation of manufacturing networks, and digitalisation and critically analyse the potentials and dangers of addressing these world challenges by granting human rights safety to non-human entities. Members of the three regional human rights courts will participate within the symposium and focus on with the audio system after their displays. Particulars will be discovered right here.
2. The Articulation and Enforcement of Obligations Erga Omnes: Current Developments As seen within the ongoing instances of The Gambia v. Myanmar, Canada and The Netherlands v. Syria and South Africa v. Israel, the characterisation of sure worldwide obligations as obligations erga omnes or extra exactly, within the context of multilateral treaty obligations, erga omnes partes has in recent times supported the enforcement of those obligations by the establishment of contentious proceedings earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice by states aside from injured states. Not solely has this thrown up new procedural challenges for the Courtroom. It has additionally raised the query of how obligations erga omnes are to be recognized. Within the newest within the sequence Bocconi Conversations in Worldwide Legislation, Dr Priya Urs (St John’s School, College of Oxford) will focus on with Prof. Roger O’Keefe (Bocconi College) current developments within the articulation and enforcement of obligations erga omnes below worldwide regulation. The occasion will happen in hybrid format on Friday, 7 June 2024, 4:30-6:00pm at Bocconi College, through Röntgen 1, 20136 Milan, room 1.c3.01. Registration is required for attendance in particular person (e mail dip.ius {at} unibocconi(.)it). To comply with the occasion on Zoom, go right here (Assembly ID: 993 0983 0316 Passcode: 539190).
