On July 10 our Association’s experts, Borys Babin, Anna Prykhodko, and Andrii Chvaliuk, took an active part in the global online symposium, “Human Rights, Sustainable Development and the Law” convened by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).
Convening leading academics, legal practitioners, policymakers, and representatives from international organizations, the symposium examined the role of law and governance in advancing sustainable development and protecting human rights.
Discussions with participation of International Court of Justice’s Judge Dire Tladi, professors Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Tina Piper, Maya Prabhu, Markus Gehring, and others addressed a range of contemporary challenges, including climate justice, sustainable business and finance, Indigenous rights, natural resource governance, and intergenerational equity, with a focus on legal and institutional responses that support the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
During the discussions, ARC’s experts stressed the attention on the interstate conflicts’ impact, including Russian aggression in Ukraine, on the climate change processes, including relevant and related challenges of indigenous peoples’ rights, as exemplified by the Crimean Tatars, and on the issues of illicit global shadow fleet activities.
The symposium was held with partnerships of the University of Cambridge, McGill University, the University of Montreal, the London School of Economics, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Costa Rica, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the University of Zambia and numerous other distinguished academic institutions and international organizations, including the International Law Association, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the International Development Law Organization.
