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Benjamin Bibas

Environmental activist Benjamin Bibas founded Radiofonies Europe / La fabrique documentaire in 2005. From the early 2000s he was interested in judicial procedures on grave human rights violations, and then on the links between such violations and the mining business. In this context, he has researched several African countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 2015, he has been documenting the way that the global environmental crisis undermines both environmental rights and human rights.

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COP29: are climate actions influencing the negotiations? - Photo: People bathing in the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the background: oil barges.
COP29: do legal climate actions influence the negotiations?
8 November 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
The 29th COP on climate opens in Azerbaijan on Monday 11 November, following a series of legal rulings in Europe forcing countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. But are they likely to influence the mandates of internat [...]
International justice: why is South Africa defending Palestine? - Photo: in 1998, Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa) prepares to embrace Yasser Arafat (President of the Palestinian Authority). Why South Africa is fighting for Palestine in The Hague
6 June 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” said Nelson Mandela. At a time when the party he brought to power at the end of apartheid has just lost its absolute majority, these words [...]
Climate justice in Switzerland - Activists from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association welcome the ECHR verdict. Switzerland condemned by the ECHR: a decisive step for climate justice in Europe
3 May 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a group of Swiss women over 64, saying that their State’s inadequate steps against climate change constitute a violation of their human rights. Why is this a pioneering dec [...]
Banks and climate justice - Financiers are now in the sights of NGOs seeking to prove their involvement in global warming. Banks, the new targets of climate action
12 December 2023 by Benjamin Bibas
COP28 ended in Dubai on Tuesday December 12 without any credible promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, there are more and more scientific reports describing the humanitarian consequences of climate change. NGOs are [...]
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Climate change - Thick black smoke billows from an oil refinery. A plane flies in the sky.
24 November 2022 by Benjamin Bibas
Climate justice: Pressure is mounting on fossil fuel producers Climate complaints against States have led to much reflection on legal responsibilities, although COP27 that ended in Egypt on November 20 was silent on this. Responsibilities lead downstream to fossil fuel companies, on whom pres [...]
Climate justice - A camel in a desert in Saudi Arabia. In the background, an oil facility of the oil giant Saudi Aramco.
4 November 2022 by Benjamin Bibas
Redefining climate justice COP27 is being held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, but the logic of "climate justice" that has prevailed until now – a solidarity obligation of developed States to those of the South – hardly works any longer. Th [...]
3 December 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Indigenous people are winning court battles ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (2/3) The Amazonian ecosystem is under threat, yet indigenous people have been fighting for it for more than 20 years before the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, winning some victor [...]
11 October 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Christel Cournil Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, co-author of “Les procès climatiques : entre le national et l’international” (2018). Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed [...]
29 July 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Climate law moves from human to nature-centred rights Since the legal victory of the environmental NGO Urgenda against the Dutch state in June 2015, there has been an increase in the number of legal actions around the world to force states to take action against climate change. To wh [...]
11 January 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Valérie Cabanes: icc should recognize the crime of ecocide JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Valérie Cabanes International lawyer, defender of human rights and nature Lawyer and activist Valérie Cabanes has seen situations on all the world’s continents where people’s fundamental rights [...]