Category: Environmental Rights
Environmental Harm, Disability, and the Importance of Procedural Environmental Rights
by Katherine Lofts & Chloe Rourke, McGill University This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. Although environmental harms disproportionately impact persons with disabilities, they have often been excluded from environmental governance processes, reinforcing existing inequities and leading to inaccessible policies and…
Gender in Climate Litigation in Latin America: Epistemic Justice Through a Feminist Lens
This piece is part of GNHRE’s series dedicated to climate litigation in Latin America. We will begin with this blog by Natalia Urzola Gutiérrez, an SJD student at Pace University and GNHRE’s COO. In recent years, Latin America has positioned itself as a fertile hub in emerging strategic climate litigation. Latin America’s climate litigation has…
GNHRE & ELGA WEBINAR: Feminist and Queer Approaches to Environmental Law and Rights
In collaboration with the Ecological Law and Governance Association, the GNHRE hosted a webinar on Feminist and Queer Approaches to Environmental Law & Rights featuring a fantastic panel of speakers and topics: Emily Jones (Essex) – “Posthuman Feminism and the Rights of Nature” Atieno Mboya Samandari (Emory) – “Ecofeminist Approaches to Climate Change” Ellen Spannagel (McGill)…
The Human Rights Council urges States to realize the rights of the child through a healthy environment
Maria-Antonia Tigre and Victoria Lichet The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an inter-governmental body made up of 47 States responsible for promoting and protecting human rights worldwide, held its 45th session from September 14th until October 7th, 2020, at the UN Office in Geneva. The UNHRC concluded its session after adopting 35 resolutions, including…
