Symposium - Human Rights and the Green Transition: Ensuring Justice for All
The Editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Brill Nijhoff) are pleased to invite you to their upcoming online symposium on “Human Rights and the Green Transition: Ensuring Justice for All” to be held on Friday 28 November 2025. As the global community accelerates efforts toward decarbonization and sustainability, the human rights implications of the green transition remain underexplored. This symposium seeks to examine the human rights challenges and opportunities that arise as societies phase out carbon-intensive industries, transition to renewable energy and adopt green technologies.
This event has been made possible in partnership with Hasselt University and Liverpool John Moores University.
In order to participate in this online symposium, please register here before 15 November 2025. Registered participants will receive a Google Meet invitation.
Programme
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8:50-9:00 CET |
Welcome Matthias Vanhullebusch (University of Hasselt) and Ben Stanford (Liverpool John Moores University) |
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9:00-10:30 CET |
PANEL 1 Community Rights and the Green Transition |
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Environmental Justice for Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh: Legal Framework and Litigation Practices through the Lens of Human Rights Asma Mahmud (University of Rajshahi) |
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Guarding the Guardians: Augmentation of Tribal Rights and Its Impact on Environmental Protection Akshit Mishra (Gujarat National Law University) |
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Equitable Benefit-Sharing and Participatory Justice in the Indus Basin: Transforming the Indus Water Treaty for a Rights-Based Green Transition Ankit Malhotra (Independent Advocate) |
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Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants: A Human Rights Framework for the Green Transition Alexandre Mortelette (University of Luxembourg) |
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10:30-12:00 CET |
PANEL 2 Socio-Economic Rights and the Green Transition |
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Safeguarding Socio-Economic Rights in the Green Transition: A Human Rights-Based Approach in the Global South Mohamed S. Mohamed (Zagazig University) |
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The Right to Housing in the Green Transition: Advancing Sustainability, Affordability, and Equity Najiba Mustafayeva (Bahçeşehir University) |
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Who is the Neocolonial Goliath? The Interplay of Labour Rights and Indigenous Rights in (Alternatives to) the Legal Geography of Palm Oil Production Vicky Kapogianni (University of Reading) and Eric Loefflad (University of Kent) |
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Safeguarding Worker’s Occupational Safety and Health in Green Jobs: Challenges and Pathways for ASEAN Anh Pham Thi Thuc (University of Economics & Law, Vietnam) |
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Greening the Economy in Oman: Are Labor Rights Being Left Behind? Mohammad Abu Taher (Sohar University), Yasin Chowdhury (BSA Law Al Rashdi and Al Barwani), Shreya Gupta (Sohar University) |
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12:00-13:00 CET |
Break |
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13:00-14:30 CET |
PANEL 3 State Responsibility in the Green Transition |
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Measuring Just Transition: Lessons Learned from Human Rights Measurement Edzia Carvalho (University of Dundee) and Sufyan Droubi (University of Dundee) |
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Enforcing Rights in the Green Transition Isidora Maletić (King’s College London) |
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Legal Pathways to a Just Green Transition: Insights from the Pacific and Beyond Alberto Costi (Victoria University of Wellington) |
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Development with Rights: The Inter-American Court and Latin America’s Sustainable Future Pablo Damián Colmegna (University of Buenos Aires) |
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Curbing Ecocide in Paradise: Legal and Rights-Based Approaches in the Maldives Nfor N. Nde Nyambi (Villa College, Maldives) |
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14:30-16:00 CET |
PANEL 4 Accountability of Business in the Green Transition |
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Trade Agreements and the Just Transition: Human Rights Implications of Sustainability Provisions Georgia Greville and Jean-Pierre Gauci (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) |
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Due Diligence for a Just Transition Ashwathi Soman (Brunel University) |
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Minority Shareholders Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Claims: Regulatory and Private Law Aspects Mariia Domina (Université Paris Nanterre) |
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Green Transition, Climate Justice, and Patent Law: Applying Critical Perspectives from Access to Food and Medicine David Tilt (University of Tokyo) |
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The Green Transition’s Dark Side: Indigenous Rights, State Failure, and Corporate Complicity in Latin America Leonardo Bortolozzo Rossi (São Paulo State University) |
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16:00-16:15 CET |
Break |
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16:15-17:45 CET |
PANEL 5 New Frontiers of the Green Transition |
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Algorithmic Justice in the Green Transition: Human Rights Challenges and Opportunities Murtaza Mohiqi (University of Agder) |
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Algorithmic Governance and the Just Transition: Embedding Human Rights in Digital Climate Finance Kirthana Singh Khurana (University of British Columbia) |
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Energy Poverty in the Digital Age: Human Rights Challenges due to Algorithmic Bias in Energy Governance Aditya Sharma (Advocate, Supreme Court of India) |
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Re-Thinking Legal and Policy Tools for Embedding Human Rights into the Environmental Governance of Outer Space Anna Marie Brennan (University of Waikato) |