Welcome to the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment – a Network for the Creation of Change

This internet-based project aims to build a dedicated portal for the exchange of scholarship, thinking and insights drawn from community-embedded experience and praxis at the interface between human rights and the environment.  Our aim is to build a global network of researchers, policy-makers, opinion-formers and community activists whose diversity forges new conversations and relationships. We are building a network for the creation of change – and it starts with the transformation of thinking.

Explore this site to meet our patrons, partners, linked researchers, policy makers, lawyers and NGO and community activists.

Our dedicated virtual research repository contains over 1900 sources for research – by far the most extensive dedicated research portal on human rights and the environment available.

The Launch of Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and the GNHRE

The official launch of the GNHRE and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment took place on the 29th June 2010, at a conference held in Bristol, UK. An exciting group of scholars and NGO activists gathered  to discuss the interface between human rights and the environment.  The Journal and the GNHRE network was formally launched by Professor Philippe Sands QC, who was extremely enthusiastic about the two initiatives, hailing them as a ‘fantastic development’.

Photos of the launch event can be found here at the photographer’s website: www.anitahummel.com

(All photos of the event are (c) Anita Hummel: www.anitahummel.com and cannot be used for commercial purposes without a user-fee agreement with the photographer).