2 April 2021 – conducted by Earth Refuge Correspondent Nikoleta Vasileva
In this podcast, Professor Martin Scheinin – former UN Human Rights Committee member and the first UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism – discusses climate change and human rights with Nikoleta Vasileva. He shares a new line of argument for indigenous peoples’ litigation based on the intergenerational dimension of the right to culture. Referring to the increase in climate change-related human rights litigation, as well as with a fresh reading of older case law, Professor Scheinin explains how once this line of argument has been established, members of non-indigenous or non-minority communities will also be able to rely on it for human rights protection.
Martin Scheinin is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the European University Institute, a British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. He served as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (the treaty body acting under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), and was the first UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism. He is currently working on a four-year project addressing a range of challenges to international human rights law posed by developments in the digital realm, and he retains an interest in human rights adjudication, first and foremost in issues of indigenous peoples’ rights.
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