Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' As is well known, unlike most other international human rights instruments, the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, to give it its full title, and the Protocols thereto (hereafter, also collectively, “the Convention” or “ECHR”) provides some protection for non-human subjects in the form of “legal persons”. After all, the Convention expressly confirms, in Article 1 of its First Protocol (“Article P1-1”), that “every natural and legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions” and provides, in Article 34, for a right of individual petition to the European Court of Human Right (“the Court”) inter alia for “any … non-governmental organisation … claiming to be a victim of a violation”(as well as for “any person … or group of individuals”). Beyond these two most obvious examples, reference should also be made to the fact that, e.g., Article 10 § 1 expressly refers to “broadcasting, television…
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Science, Technology, “Human” Dignity and Rules
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' As in previous industrial revolutions --bolstered by scientific discovery-- bold entrepreneurs seek to influence decision-makers and shape social and legal rules to achieve the precarious assembly of raw materials, energy, labour, and…
Robots and Human Rights: A Matter of Coherence?
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' Advocates of so-called robot rights argue for the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in human rights protection from two fundamentally different perspectives. The first argument for coherence is as follows: If courts…
Emerging Animal Rights and Their Anthropo-, Zoo- and Ecocentric Justifications
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' The idea of expanding the normative framework of human rights to nonhuman entities is not quite new, but ever-so topical in the age of AI, corporate human rights, and the rise of…
‘Rights of Nature’ in Human Rights Courts or a Parallel Protection System?
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’ What role, if any, do human rights courts have in the protection of the natural world? Advisory Opinion 23 by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights…
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