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Legal battle for the climate before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: Cyclone Pam (2015) over Vanuatu as seen from a satellite.

The battle for the climate takes on the ICJ

The COP29 just ended in Azerbaijan with a financial agreement deemed insufficient by many participants. Now states of the Global South and environmental campaigners are pinning their hopes on the legal battle being waged before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where public hearings begin on December 2.

By Golnouche K. Barzegar (Justice Info)

Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.

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Art installation in Australia representing the aboriginal flag

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Climate change - Following a sudden rise in water levels, two residents of the Marshall Islands are walking with water up to their chests.

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Ben Roberts-Smith - 3 Australian newspapers named him in allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan.

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Climate change - Cyclone in Vanuatu (2015)

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Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan - SAS trooper Oliver Schultz arrested

Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan: a high-stakes first arrest

Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage

Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system

Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.

Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission

War Crimes in Afghanistan - Article in The Canberra Times (Australia) headlined:

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Dutch soldiers fire shells in the Chora region, Afghanistan

Dutch war crimes in Afghanistan: The Australian trigger

Inscription in the Maori language on a wall

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Australia launches unprecedented war crimes probe

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Removing monuments is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires

Turnbull calls on Pope to sack archbishop for concealing child abuse

Turnbull calls on Pope to sack archbishop for concealing child abuse