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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.
Challenges in international law for the protection of children and adolescents and their families who are victims of environmental displacement
Authors
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Jairo Lucero Pantoja
Universidad de O’Higgins
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7656-3641
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Juliana Diaz Pantoja
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de O'Higgins
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5213-2262
Abstract
As a result of the climate crisis, there is a need to establish a legal framework to protect people who, affected by environmental conditions, must move from their territories, prioritizing sectors that suffer greater vulnerability, such as children and adolescents. In this context, this study analyzes the possible regulation applicable to minors persons who must migrate for environmental reasons, in order to satisfy the integral protection of their rights, in particular, the guarantee of non-refoulement, extensible to their family nucleus. To this extent, using a dogmatic methodology and the systematic and factual methods, it is concluded that (i) although the regulation on refuge, contained mainly in the Convention of Geneva of 1951, is not compatible with the nature of environmental displacement, (ii) based on a harmonious interpretation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the General Comments of their respective Committees, it does allow States to fully protect children and adolescents in compliance with the principle of the best interests of the child and the guarantee of family unity.
Keywords:
Environmental displacement, children and adolescents, climate crisisReferences
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