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SUMMARY:Human Rights Lunch Online: Rights of future generations - questions
  of law\, politics and morality
DESCRIPTION:Contact: info@humanrights.lu.se\n\nIn international human right
 s law\, the subject\, or 'beneficiary'\, of a human right is usually thoug
 ht of as a born and living person\, a current individual human being. That
  said\, human rights law does recognise the category of collective peoples
 ' rights\, as well as the concept of human dignity that represents a unive
 rsal value underlying a whole range of specific human rights of individual
 s. In moral philosophy\, some authors are prepared to widen the scope of s
 ubjects of rights\, while some others only attribute rights to persons wit
 h active agency\, prepared to deny human rights to small children or perso
 ns with severe disabilities. The ongoing climate crisis has resulted in in
 creased attention to the question whether future generations\, as individu
 als or collectively\, have human rights that have consequences in terms of
  law\, morality or politics. Both the UN Human Rights Committee case of in
 digenous Torres Strait Islanders (Daniel Billy et al. v. Australia) and th
 e European Court of Human Rights case of an association of senior Swiss la
 dies (Klima Seniorinnen v. Switzerland) came to rely on the notion of righ
 ts of future generations in establishing that the two states in question w
 ere in breach of their legally binding human rights obligations.You can re
 ad more on the topic on the Human Rights blog.&nbsp\;Martin Scheinin is an
  international law scholar and served as the first United Nations Special 
 Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. He was se
 lected for this position after serving for eight years (1997–2004) as me
 mber of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Today\, Martin is Guest
  Professor at Lund University's Faculty of Law\, and remains a part-time p
 rofessor of International Law and Human Rights at the European University 
 Institute in Florence\, Italy.\n\nMore information about the event: https:
 //www.law.lu.se/calendar/human-rights-lunch-online-rights-future-generatio
 ns-questions-law-politics-and-morality
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65437566996
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