27/12/2022
Dear all,
We have extended the deadline for the second call for papers to January 20th. As a reminder, please find the call for paper.
We are happy to introduce you to the second call for paper of The University of Tartu Journal of International Law and Human Rights. The Journal is an academic law journal focused on questions of international law and human rights. Its first part deals with general issues, treaties and recent cases relevant to International Law and Human Rights, such as the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Vienna Conventions and the International Court of Justice case law. The purpose of this part is to review International Law in the most extensive and elaborate way within the scope of human rights. While its second part is focused on a theme meticulously chosen by the editorial board to reflect the ever-changing world. In this part, the authors have the opportunity to focus more deeply on one subject area currently discussed by scholars.
The Journal was founded at the initiative of Delphine Saint-Martin last year, as she strived to give the opportunity to fellow law students to have enabled them to research issues and questions of international law through the scope of human rights.
The editorial board has made the choice to have the second issue on climate change and human rights/international law, as the issue of climate change is becoming more and more emerging and it has significant impacts on basic human rights, such as right to life, right to food, right to health, water, and sanitation. As such the international response to it is evolving, including United Nations Resolutions, international law, judicial decisions, and domestic law. At the core of international law there is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, under which first the Kyoto Protocol and then the Paris Agreement were set.
The focus of this year’s journal is on various issues that have arisen due to climate change on an international level. To analyze these, there is a broad international climate change legal framework to rely on. Furthermore, as regards human rights issues, besides the basic human rights mentioned beforehand a series of important issues arose. Such as, refugee law and people who are forced to flee because of sea level rise or drought (ex. Human Rights Committee, 2020, Ioane Teitiota against New Zealand case); also for indigenous people rights, who have an intricate relationship with the environment and are consequently affected disproportionately. The children's rights has been invoked in the climate litigation too (United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2019, Chiara Sacchi et al. v. Argentina et al.). Gender based discrimination has been also an important issue on the matter, addressed also by the General Comment No. 37 of CEDAW in 2018.
We ask that you communicate to us via email by January 20th, 2023. Our email address is [email protected] . If it is not possible for you to meet the deadline, you are invited to email us and we can give you an extension accordingly.
Irini Kaci and Rashidakhon Tukhtasinova
Editors in Chief of The University of Tartu Journal of International Law and Human Rights
