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The legal battle for climate justice in Africa is on the rise

The legal battle for climate justice in Africa is on the rise

MORE Africans are turning to the courts, demanding climate justice, and holding governments and corporations accountable. The latest UNEP report reveals a considerable rise in global climate litigation, from 884 cases in 24 jurisdictions in 2017 to over 2000 cases in 65 jurisdictions in 2022. According to Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP, the rate of growth is rapid, with assessments showing “there is seemingly a new case every week,” he explains. While the majority of lawsuits - 1522 cases, representing about 70% of all lawsuits - hailing from the US, the proportion outside the US has climbed from 26%…
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Haunted by forced sterilizations, Peruvian women pin hopes on court hearing

Haunted by forced sterilizations, Peruvian women pin hopes on court hearing

ANASTASIA MOLONEY A 25-year legal battle by thousands of indigenous Peruvian women who say they were forcibly sterilized during a 1990s birth control drive will go before a judge on Monday, raising hopes they could finally see justice, their lawyers said. About 350,000 women were sterilized under a program launched in 1996 by former strongman President Alberto Fujimori, who has said the procedures were carried out with patients' consent and aimed to tackle poverty by cutting birth rates. But more than 2,000 women have told rights groups and prosecutors they were sterilized without their consent, sometimes threatened or duped by…
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