Our big week of advocacy with a cross-regional group of inspirational human rights defenders continued yesterday! At a round table with NGOs, human rights lawyers & donors,we discussed how the international community can best support grassroots activism. #DefendDefenders #HRDs

We are delighted to announce that our Climate Environmental Justice group (Doughty Street International (DSI)) and Adam Wagner (Adam Wagner KC) have been shortlisted for the LexisNexis Legal & Professional #Legal Awards 2024! In recognition of his work around the Covid-19 laws, public legal education and protecting the

Mexican & Guatemalan Environmental and Indigenous Rights orgs CEMDA Nuestro Futuro A.C. Iniciativa Climática de México CCDA Guatemala UVOC intervene in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency Margherita Cornaglia @CamilaZBesso. doughtystreet.co.uk/news/five-lati…

Rainham deserves better! 📷 Toxic fires from an illegal landfill have polluted the air for 20+ years. The Council won’t act, so we’re taking them to court! Help us protect our community. Donate & share! 📷 Together, we can clean up Launders Lane! #StopTheFires (1/4)

🔥🔥🔥Please help if you can. I live close by...🔥🔥🔥 🔄 Retweet 💙 Like ✍️ Comment 💷 Donate if you are able ➡️crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-…

🔥🔥 Rainham needs you!! 🔥🔥 #StopTheFires #ClearTheAir #SupportRainham #EnvironmentalJustice #Havering

Please spread this far and wide for #JusticeForLaundersLane

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Rainham deserves better!💔 Toxic fires from an illegal landfill have polluted the air for 20+ years. The Council won’t act, so we’re taking them to court! Help us protect our community: donate & share!💙 Together, we can clean up Launders Lane! crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-… (1/14)

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Please spread this far and wide for #JusticeForLaundersLane 🙏🏻 #StopTheFires

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Margherita Cornaglia (Margherita Cornaglia) is instructed by Mishcon de Reya’s Purpose Litigation team in a judicial review concerning the failure to designate an unlawful landfill site as contaminated land, under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Community group Clear The Air In Havering is challenging Havering Council’s lack of action over an illegal landfill site at Launders Lane in Rainham, which is affecting air quality and local residents’ lives. Learn more: mishcon.com/news/community…

THREAD: 1. PERSONAL NEWS: Today BBC News has announced plans to close BBC HARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵

"In a nutshell: bleak times ahead, diminishing scope for deploying Article 31." Sonali Naik KC Garden Court Chambers, Zahra Al-Rikabi Brick Court Chambers, Laura Dubinsky KC and Margherita Cornaglia from DoughtyStPublic, and Toby Fisher from Matrix on international law in JR #JRTrends24

The outpouring of support for ⁦BBC HARDtalk⁩ over the last 48 hours has been extraordinary. Thank you. We are proud of our journalism. And it’s great to know how much it is appreciated worldwide The BBC is foolish to axe HARDtalk - New Statesman newstatesman.com/politics/media…

Margherita Cornaglia (Margherita Cornaglia) spoke on Cross Examination Podcast about the evolution of climate law at the international, national and local levels and more! youtube.com/watch?v=HadVsk…

🚨BREAKING: COP29 CEO EXPOSED using climate summit to discuss new oil deals Our latest investigation exposes how Azerbaijan were willing to facilitate fossil fuel deals as part of a sponsorship package. 🌍💰 gwitness.org/4fhvXy6