Confronting Human Rights Justifications in Climate Litigation: Developing a New Methodological Approach for the Systematic Ongoing Direct Civil Society Engagement

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tribunajuridica.eu/arhiva/y15v2/1.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.tribunajuridica.eu/arhiva/y15v2/1.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.62768/TBJ/2025/15/2/01" target="_blank" >10.62768/TBJ/2025/15/2/01</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Confronting Human Rights Justifications in Climate Litigation: Developing a New Methodological Approach for the Systematic Ongoing Direct Civil Society Engagement

Original language description

This article introduces and applies the innovative Systematic Ongoing Direct Civil Society Engagement (ODCSE) methodology developed under the Horizon Europe HRJust project (no. 101094346) to examine how states justify their actions through human rights discourse, with a focus on climate litigation. The ODCSE approach emphasizes participatory, iterative engagement with civil society to evaluate the legitimacy and accountability of human rights justifications (HRJs). Drawing on qualitative and quantitative findings, the article shows how the ODCSE methodology has been used to map common state strategies in climate-related HRJs, comparing general and context-specific practices, and identifying the influence ofgeopolitical dynamics. A key contribution of this process is the integration of gender and intersectionality within the ODCSE framework. Recognising that climate impacts-and connected human rights narratives-are shaped by gender, race, and other intersecting factors, the methodology actively includes feminist and marginalised civil society voices in the co-production of knowledge. The article concludes with proposals for strengthening the role of the EU and global actors in promoting transparent, gender-responsive human rights justifications in climate policy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Juridical Tribune - Review of Comparative and International Law

ISSN

3008-637X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

208 - 229

UT code for WoS article

001548465600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105011490956