Maria Antonia Tigre

Maria Antonia Tigre (S.JD. Candidate, LL.M., Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, J.D., Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro) is the Global Climate Litigation Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and the Deputy Director for the Global Network of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE).

Symposium
Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Climate Change Litigation: What the ECtHR Could Learn from Courts in the Global South

Melanie Murcott Maria Antonia Tigre Nesa Zimmermann

Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of justice, including because it is causing (and worsening) human rights violations (see here, here, and here). In response to climate injustice,...

Symposium
Covid-19 and “New” Human Rights

COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights Symposium

Maria Antonia Tigre Anna-Julia Saiger Nesa Zimmermann

Legal debates on the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the urgently needed containment measures, the distribution of vaccines, and the protection of human rights are flourishing. A year after the WHO declared...

Symposium

Call for Contributions: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights

Maria Antonia Tigre Nesa Zimmermann Anna-Julia Saiger

COVID-19 has spread all over the world, unequivocally reaching countries of very different socio-economic development. Yet, COVID-19 has unequally affected different groups and communities around the world and continues to...

Article

How is COVID-19 affecting Amazonia?

Maria Antonia Tigre

COVID-19 has spread throughout the world as a health crisis with deep socio-economic consequences. While the focus of the effects of COVID-19 often lie in urban centers, Indigenous people have...