Category: Community
GNHRE co-hosts the thematic consultation to inform the General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change
by Victoria Lichet with assistance from Natalia Urzola, Maria Antonia Tigre & Dina Lupin In June 2021, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the CRC) decided to create a General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change (the General Comment). The goal of the…
Polluting Away the People’s Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment in Ghana
by Dr Felix Nana Kofi Ofori, REACT Humanitarian Network, Oxford, UK Like most developing countries, Ghana is internally engaging in development projects to provide sustainable economic, social, political and cultural systems, which address the aspirations of its citizenry. The UN General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of December 14, 1962-Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources- recognises the…
GNHRE-UNEP School for Human Rights and the Environment
2022 Summer/Winter School: Water from Oceans to Taps The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will host their second annual online School on Environmental and Human Rights from 20-24 June 2022. This year the Summer/Winter School will focus on the theme Water – from oceans to…
COP26: Climate Finance and Human Rights – a story of insufficient ambition
by Pedro Cisterna Gaete* At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries committed to mobilising 100 billion dollars annually by 2020 for finance mitigation and adaptation actions. Regrettably, developed countries did not comply with this pledge, reaching only 79.6 billion dollars by 2019 with no possibilities to achieve the 2020 pledge. It is in the…
Implementing the Escazú Agreement: towards GNHRE’s guiding principles
By Felix le Roux, Pablo Serra-Palao & Natalia Urzola The Escazú Agreement (the Agreement) is groundbreaking in myriad ways. It is the first regional agreement for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that explicitly advances the intersection of human rights and environmental protection. With a clear set of rules, principles, and instruments, the Agreement aims…
