Aoife Nolan
Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, School of Law
Email: aoife.nolan@nottingham.ac.uk
Bio: Professor Aoife's current work focuses on the human rights of children and future generations in the context of environmental protection. She is particularly interested in the appropriate role of courts in outlining what states need to do to give effect to those rights in the context of climate justice cases.
From 2020-23, she ran the Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation project which has focused in-depth on climate justice litigation focused on child rights. She also served as a member of the advisory committee on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment No.26 on children's rights and the environment, which was launched in September 2023.
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Below is a selection of articles and resources from the Hub featuring Aoife's research.
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- This document of Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigation seek to show how child rights are being, and can be, integrated into climate justice strategic litigation practice.
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- This article analyses the General Comment No.26 on Children's Rights and the Environment, with a Special Focus on Climate Change (GC26).
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- Professor Aoife Nolan explains why the rights of children are essential to developing effective laws, policies, and programmes to counteract climate change.
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- This short article examines the importance of the relationship between children's rights and future generations' rights for International Human Rights Law.
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- On 11 October 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published its decisions in complaints brought against five states – Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey – by 16 child complainants. This short article examines that decision.