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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim at tackling key systematic barriers to sustainable development such as inequality, poverty, unsustainable consumption and production patterns, inadequate infrastructure and lack of decent jobs. The SDGs provide useful guidance for shaping law, policy and practice for implementation of effective and ambitious climate change action. Specifically, they exhort nations to share innovation and prosperity, promote global cooperation and solidarity, and ensure that equality and Climate Justice are promoted and attained. It is against this background that this paper seeks to establish a significant nexus between the SDGs, human rights and climate change; examine the role of law and parliaments in the progressive realization of the SDGs; and to conclude with some viable options for Africa.
The Paris Agreement on climate change is the newest, inclusive and most ambitious international agreement to combat the complex problem of climate change, adopted on 12 th December 2015 6 at the 21 st Conference of the Parties...
The 1975 treaty that founded ECOWAS envisioned an international tribunal. But governments did not agree to create a community court until 1991, when they adopted a protocol that limited the court‘s jurisdiction to interstate disputes concerning...
This report provides information on parliamentary oversight mechanisms of the executive branch in Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries represent different geographical regions and p...
Good practice regarding the use of security forces is based on the concept that providing security and respecting human rights can and should be consistent. This translates into implementation of policies and practices that ensure security provision ...
Japan made reforms to its criminal justice system in June 2016 by amending its Criminal Procedure Code and other laws. The reform that received the most discussion by Japan’s Judicial System Committee was the introduction of the mandatory video...
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