http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/6269e638f2fae6d9 https://verfassungsblog.de/peoples-across-time/ Peoples Across Time - Future Generations and the African Climate Advisory Opinion Waswa, Simon eng 2026-03-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 African Human Rights Climate Crisis climate litigation Future Generations Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 A pending advisory opinion before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights raises a question that is novel within the African regional human rights system: can human rights law protect future generations against climate harm? The open-ended notion of “peoples” in the African Charter offers a doctrinal basis for embedding intergenerational justice. Read in light of Article 24 and the Charter’s collective architecture, it could give concrete legal meaning to obligations owed across time.