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Virtual Book Launch – Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change
On Monday, 1 November, 2021 at 1 pm EDT/5pm GMT/6 pm CET, Kathleen Dean Moore and Tom Kerns will discuss their new book, Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change, along with special guest and GNHRE Founder Anna Grear. You can register in advance for the launch here. About the Book: The book launch will…
The UNHRC recognizes the right to a healthy environment and appoints a new Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change. What does it all mean?*
By Annalisa Savaresi On Friday 8 October, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 48/13, recognising for the first time that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right and calling on UN Member States to cooperate to implement this right. On the same day, the Council adopted Resolution 48/14, establishing a…
UNHRC Resolution recognising a Human Right to a Healthy Environment
On Friday the 8th of October 2021, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution recognising the Human Right to a Healthy Environment. The resolution was adopted by vote of 43 (yes) – 0 (no) – 4 (abstain). This is the text that was adopted: United Nations A/HRC/48/L.23/Rev.1 General Assembly Distr.: Limited 5 October 2021…
Virtual Book Launch: Droit constitutionnel de l’environnement
Please join the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, the International Council of Environmental Law and Widener University Delaware Law School for the virtual launch of Droit constitutionnel de l’environnement, edited by Marie-Anne Cohendet. The launch will take place on 14 October at 1pm EDT/7pm CEST. You can register in advance for the launch here. After…
No One-Size-Fits-All: Variability as a Substantive Basis for the Equitable and Fair Implementation of the Escazú Agreement
By Felix le Roux LLM Candidate at the University of Pretoria, South Africa Introduction The Escazú Agreement (the Agreement) is based on the fundamental premise expressed in Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration that “environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens.” To this end, the Agreement contains detailed provisions relating…
