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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

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20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

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28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

19/12/2023

Advisory proceedings on the climate emergency and human rights in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Monica Feria-Tinta has been instructed by the Institute of Small and Micro States to act on its behalf in the Advisory Opinion proceedings on ‘The Climate Emergency and Human Rights’ currently pending before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

On 9 January 2023, the Republic of Chile and the Republic of Colombia, both State members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and parties to the American Convention on Human Rights, jointly filed a request for an Advisory Opinion on the climate emergency and human rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

In accordance with the deadline provided by the Court, on 17 December 2023, the Institute of Small and Micro States filed observations to the request by Chile and Colombia.

The request by Chile and Colombia aims “to clarify the scope of State obligations, in their individual and collective dimension, in order to respond to the climate emergency within the framework of international human rights law, paying special attention to the differentiated impacts of this emergency on individuals from diverse regions and population groups, as well as on nature and on human survival on our planet.”

Member States of the OAS “may consult the Court regarding the interpretation of this Convention or of other treaties concerning the protection of human rights in the American states.”

The submissions of the Institute of Small and Micro States focuses on the situation of small states in the Caribbean. Small island States like the Caribbean countries contribute to only 1% of the global greenhouse gas emissions yet stand to be disproportionately affected. The UN Secretary-General, Mr Gueterres has acknowledged that “[t]he Caribbean is ground zero for the global climate emergency.

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