Category: Blog
Announcements: 25 April 2025
If you would like to have something included in the next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are especially interested in submissions outside of Europe and North America. Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law (abstracts)The Centre for International Law at the…
Linking the Principles of Restorative Justice and Procedural Environmental Rights
by Patricia Doiron Restorative Justice and Procedural Environmental Rights as Relational Hiking in a mountain range near a flowing river brings a sense of awe, beauty, and connection. When walking through this environment, you might find yourself intersecting with a myriad of ecosystems both consciously and unconsciously. There is the raindrop that falls from the…
How the Aarhus and Escazú Agreements Could be Used in Developing the CEPA Framework for the Right to a Healthy Environment
by Rebecca Waxman On June 13, 2023, Canada recognized the right to a healthy environment for the first time in a national law, through Bill S-5, Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act, which amended the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). CEPA defines “healthy environment” as one which is “clean, healthy and sustainable.”[1] This…
Reflections on the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Citizen Submission Process
by Rowan Markesteyn This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. Public participation in environmental decision-making and access to environmental justice have been globally accepted as fundamental human rights since 1992 when the Rio Declaration adopted principle 10, codifying this idea. Two…
Supporting Procedural Environmental Human Rights in Canada: a role for the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines?
by Sara Seck This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. We began this series of blog posts over a year ago with the aim of exploring how international law might inform and support the protection of procedural environmental human rights in…
