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Environmental Law Journal becomes part of Scielo Chile

The publication edited by the Environmental Law Center will be part of an open access collection of Chilean scientific journals in all areas of knowledge.

The Environmental Law Journal, edited by the Environmental Law Center of the Law School of the University of Chile, was admitted to be part of the SciELO - Chile Scientific Electronic Library.

SciELO - Chile is an open access collection of texts from Chilean scientific journals, from all areas of knowledge, which predominantly publish articles resulting from scientific research, and which uses peer review of the manuscripts they receive, which show a growing performance in the indicators of compliance with the indexing criteria.

"We are very pleased with this recognition, which is the result of an effort of continuous improvement of the editorial processes developed by the editorial team, which has resulted in the growing increase in the quality of the articles published over the years," said the director of the Journal, Prof. Valentina Durán Medina, adding "we are grateful for the support of the Faculty, which through its Dean, Prof. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the Journals Program of the Research Department, headed by Prof. Daniel Álvarez, has provided permanent support to the work of the journal."

"Once the collaboration agreement between the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) is signed, the full incorporation of the journal to this collection will take place, starting in 2022" explained the editor Jorge Ossandón Rosales.

This good news is in addition to the admission, in 2020, of the Environmental Law Journal to the SCOPUS database.

As a result, in 2022 the Environmental Law Journal will already be indexed in Scopus, Redib, DOAJ and Latindex, in addition to ScIELO, with the support of SISIB and the Journals Program of the Research Department of the Law School of the Universidad of Chile.

It should be noted that Issue 16 of this biannual journal will be published on December 31.

 

Forced displacement as a result of Climate Change: New challenges for International Refugee Law

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Abstract

International refugee law, born as a result of the historical experience of the Second World War, in the form of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951), seeks to protect people against persecution for political, racial, national, cultural, religious, gender, or others universally reasons recognized as unacceptable, whether at the level of individual persecution under the terms of the 1951 Convention, or group, under the terms provided by the Cartagena Declaration (1984). However, this notion of international protection derived from the direct action of the human being is problematized with regard to the growing group of people who are displaced as a result of climate change, a hypothesis that international refugee law does not seem to include, remaining outside its regulatory framework, even when the violation of rights that these people are facing is completely evident. Considering this, the purpose of this work will be to reconstruct the normative framework that could regulate these new protection needs in the light of international human rights law, with a view to analyzing the feasibility of applying Chilean regulation to these hypotheses. Thus, we will review international instruments and customary law available, to evaluate different legal forms that could protect those who have been displaced as a result of climate change, through complementary protection, the principle of non-refoulement and the prohibition of collective expulsions; arguing that —even when there is no specific legislation in this regard— we already have ratified instruments in our legal system that could serve these purposes.

Keywords:

International Refugee Law, forced displacement, climate change, International Human Rights Law

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