Category: News
Bianca Jagger becomes GNHRE Patron
The GNHRE is absolutely delighted and honoured to announce that Bianca Jagger, Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and Member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council of Amnesty International, USA, has agreed to be a Patron of the GNHRE. Bianca is an outstanding, long-time and prominent international human rights,…
Choosing a Future: Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
The GNHRE is delighted to announce the publication of a new edited collection, Choosing a Future: The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change, co-edited by Anna Grear and Conor Gearty. The issue is no longer whether climate change is happening; it is rather what we should now be doing about it. Drawing together key thinkers and…
UN expert urges States to respect human rights obligations in environmental policies
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights reports that John Knox, the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment has called on states to take obligations concerning the environment seriously: “It is now beyond argument that human rights law includes obligations relating to the environment,” said John Knox, urging States…
IUCN GNHRE Symposium Draft Programme Now Available
The GNHRE Symposium 2014, ‘Reimagining “humanity” in the nexus between human rights and the environment’, 2014 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium, Tarragona, Spain, draft programme. The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment Symposium @GNHRE at the 12th Colloquium http://t.co/I6DDgYEHeq — IUCNAEL 2014 (@iucnael2014) March 9, 2014 This year’s theme…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, has delivered his final report: on the ‘transformative potential of food’. The report can be found here. It concludes that ‘[t]he eradication of hunger and malnutrition is an achievable goal. Reaching it requires, however, that we move away from business as usual and…
