This session will explore the intersections between racial justice, the climate crisis, and legal frameworks, with a particular focus on human rights and migration issues.
Priya Morley will bring us a perspective from the Americas, highlighting how these issues intersect and what we may learn from a lens that draws on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) angle when considering the Climate Crisis. Her work delves into why it's imperative to analyse the global ecological crisis through a racial justice lens, highlighting how a racial equality analysis under international human rights law importantly centers the disproportionate impacts of the climate crisis on Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and other racially marginalized people and groups. This framing offers a pathway to imagine reparations for harms relating to the climate crisis, and is also essential to understand and respond to climate displacement.
Hannah Zaruchas from the HU Berlin will join us and bring a more European perspective to the discussion, with a focus on how the ECtHR law and migration policies impact these questions and intersect with human rights considerations. Her research sheds light on the complex dynamics influencing admission decisions within the European context, offering valuable insights into the human rights dimensions of migration governance.
As participants in this dialogue, you will have the opportunity to contribute your perspectives and insights, shaping our collective understanding of these pressing issues. Together, we will discuss how legal responses can be crafted to better address the intersecting challenges of racial justice, climate crisis, human rights, and migration.