Mirna D. Goransky is an associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and a consultant of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, New York City Bar Association. She is Deputy General Prosecutor of the Office of the National Attorney General in Argentina (currently on leave). Since she joined the office in 1996, she has, inter alia, served as prosecutor of the Special Unit to Investigate Human Rights Crimes during the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship, in charge of the trials against those accused of crimes against humanity in the Navy School of Mechanics (Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada) and Operation Condor (the co-ordination to persecute political dissidents of Southern Cone military governments) from 2006 to 2012; prosecutor of the Criminal Policy Unit, leading programmes such as Community Relations and reorganisation of the Ministerio Público from 1996 to 1999; and prosecutor of the first ever decentralised prosecutor’s office in the City of Buenos Aires in 1999. She has been a consultant to the drafting of legislation to reform the criminal and criminal procedure codes in Guatemala for the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law, CREA/USAID, in 1996; a main researcher of the Project to Reform the Judiciary in Argentina, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1993 to 1994; a researcher of the Project to Reform the National System of Criminal Procedure in Argentina, Secretary of Justice, National Government of Argentina in 1989; an expert consultant on judicial systems working on the implementation of the new criminal procedure system in Argentina, United Nations Development Program/International Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1987 to 1988; co-ordinator of the Legislation Commission, National Commission against Narco-Traffic and Drug Abuse, Argentina, from 1986 to 1987; and main adviser to the Secretary, Dr. Jaime Malamud Goti, National State Secretariat, Argentina, from 1985 to 1987.
Goransky holds a Law Degree from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, where she later worked as an associate professor teaching courses on criminal law and procedure and constitutional rights. She served as an independent researcher on a comparative study on the organisation and functioning of prosecutors’ offices in Argentina, Chile and the United States at the Justice Studies Center of the Americas. She has authored the book “Hacia un Ministerio Público eficaz, eficiente y democrático” (“Towards an Effective, Efficient and Democratic Prosecution, Editores del Puerto, Buenos Aires”) and has published more than 30 articles on criminal law and procedure, human rights and judiciary reform. She has given numerous lectures in various countries in Latin America on these issues and served as member of the editorial board of Nueva Doctrina Penal (New Criminal Jurisprudence, a law journal on criminal law and procedure and as editor-in-chief of Pena y Estado (Punishment and State, also a journal on criminal law and society). In 2013, she received the M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award. She is a founding member of the Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales (Institute of Comparative Studies on Criminal and Social Sciences) and a founding member and member of the board of the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Association for Civil Rights).
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Serina Fast Horse and Toby Query met as employees at the City of Portland in 2018 while working on an innovative project that centered Indigenous voices and perspectives. This project, Shwah kuk wetlands (which means frog in Chinuk Wawa, a local indigenous trade language) intertwines Indigenous (or relational) and Western...
What does the more-than-human city look like? Ferne Edwards, Barcelona Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Girona Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Trondheim Lily Fillwalk, New Brunswick Audax M. Gawler, Victoria İdil Gaziulusoy, Espoo Giulia Gualtieri, Almere Gloria Lauterbach, Espoo Saba Mirzahosseini, Turin Clare Qualmann, London Trophica Lab, Bogotá D.C. Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe, Basel
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Places, much like nature, are in a constant state of change. This is especially true for Rocinha, Brazil’s most populous favela, home to approximately 200,000 people. Perched on steep hillsides in Rio de Janeiro’s Southern Zone, Rocinha is a vibrant, multi-layered community where life unfolds within a dense network of...
Biodiversity has always been important to environmental scientists, conservationists, landscape architects, and others but only recently seems to have entered the public domain. It took a long time for Australia to accept the climate emergency. It is pleasing to see that the biodiversity crisis has been accepted more readily. There...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that 19 to 23 million tonnes of plastic waste end up in lakes, rivers, and seas annually[1]. This staggering number highlights the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution. The growing production of waste, inadequate disposal methods, and the slow degradation of plastics significantly...
The EU Nature Restoration Law is here. Do we have what it takes to make it work? Bettina Wilk, Bilbao John Warren Tamor, Bonn Evelyn Underwood, Brussels Laure-Lou Tremblay, Brussels Ferenc Albert Szigeti, Budapest Adeline Rochet, Brussels Martin Grisel, The Hague Federica Risi, The Hague Silvia Quarta, Murcia Christos Papachristou, Dublin Anne-Sophie Mulier, Brussels Shane McGuinness, Dublin Goksen Sahin, Brussels Philipp LaHaela-Walter, Freiburg Gitty Korsuize, Utrecht Valerie Kapos, Cambridge Chris McOwen, Cambridge John Tayleur, Cambridge Opi Outhwaite, Cambridge Niki Frantzeskaki, Utrecht João Dinis, Cascais City Marta Delas, Madrid Jordi Cortina-Segarra, Alicante Humberto Delgado Rosa, Brussels Roby Biwer, Luxembourg Marta Mansanet Cánovas, Luxembourg Heather Brooks, Brussels Carlo Calfapietra, Porano Chiara Baldacchini, Viterbo Bogdan Micu, Bucharest Liviu Bailesteanu, Bucharest
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7 January 2025
The Power of Care for Climate Justice Praneeta Mudaliar, Mississauga Lilian Dart, Mississauga Dannia Eyelli Philipp Gutierrez, Toronto Celina Mankarios, Mississauga
Commoning and climate justice The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Canada is bustling with youth-based climate action and advocacy. From bringing lawsuits against governments to advocating for fossil fuel divestment and spreading awareness about intersecting crises such as housing insecurity and climate impacts, young people are emerging as powerful voices...
Cities are, at their best, collaborative masterpieces, aren’t they? They emerge from the interplay of diverse professions, ways of knowing, modes of action, governments, and, most importantly, the people who call them home. They are cultural, ecological, human, and non-human. Together (ideally), these forces shape cities based on shared—and sometimes...
Love, a complex and profoundly influential emotion, has been widely explored in a variety of academic fields including sociology, psychology, anthropology, as well as human and physical geography. In geography, love is explored in several ways, including love of place and of nature (tophilia and biophilia) (see Tuan, 1974 and...
The UK’s new Labour-led government has pledged to tackle the country’s long-standing housing crisis head-on, with a bold promise to deliver 1.5 million new homes in the next five years. This plan comes in response to the mounting pressures of soaring demand, limited housing supply, and ever-increasing prices that have...
Each time our editorial team gathers to publish an issue of SPROUT, we reflect on the role of poetry to comment on the current state of the eco-urban. When we read through the submissions, we feel that our original vision and mandate for the journal is confirmed by the special...
The world is still reeling from the massive mortality and setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing political invasion and violence between Nation states. Polarized geopolitics has steered us in a dismal direction. Added to this, natural and human-made emergencies are creating further uncertainties. We would have thought that...
The Nature of Cities focuses on creative approaches to greening urban environments, what that means, why it is important, who is involved, and how, including Roundtables on “cities and pollinators“, and regenerative urban agriculture. The focus of this piece is 18 fruit trees installed for 6 months in an art...
In 2020, to halt the building of a logging road in Canada, a group of activists set up blockades to protect woodland in British Columbia. A Pacheedaht elder named Bill Jones was quoted in The Guardian as saying, “We must not stand down”. He went on to call ancient trees...
The notion of giving voice to more-than-human communities has long been of interest to artists, activists, and change-makers worldwide. Though still emerging, movements like the rights of nature have increasingly advocated for granting natural entities—rivers, forests, ecosystems—legal standing, akin to the rights given to people or corporations. Over the past...
Obesity imposes a heavy burden on individuals and societies (Boutari and Mantzoros, 2022). Since obesity is difficult to cure and often coexists with other chronic conditions, public health efforts to prevent obesity are needed (McNally, 2024). However, a strategy focusing on individuals, simply telling people to eat less and exercise...
I have come to believe that in the fight to save trees and forests in our cities, it is necessary to better understand what I am calling the “psychology of trees”, those factors and influences and patterns of thinking that affect the decisions individuals, developers, and even entire communities, make...
Did you know that baby housemartins speak in their sleep? I did not ― until some nights ago in early July. I was walking down the deserted main road outside Varese Ligure, an old-fashioned Italian mountain town. It was the evening of the day I had arrived. Following the dimly...
