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In its March session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on human rights and the environment, and has decided to appoint an Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment. (19th Session, A/HRC/19/L.8/Rev.1, 20 March 2012).  The resolution can be accessed via the link below: Human Rights and Environment Resolution March 2012

Professor Lorraine Code, author of Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location will be speaking at Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, in New Zealand, in March. These events are co-hosted by the GNHRE and the Faculty.  There are two events:  A symposium: ‘Ecological Epistemologies: Moving Beyond the Monocultural Imaginary’ and a public lecture: ‘Care,…

  Closure of International Council on Human Rights Policy: A message from the Chair of the Executive Board The Executive Board has very reluctantly taken the decision to close the ICHRP at the end of February. This is primarily due to continued financial difficulties, largely a result of the difficult funding climate, especially for human…

Professor Brad Morse, a GNHRE member, and Dean of Te Piringa Faculty of Law, Waikato University, New Zealand, discusses water rights and management issues in an interview on New Zealand’s ‘One News’.  The interview was inspired by indigenous Maori claims over water rights and governance. The interview can be accessed here.

CLIMsystems Receives 2011 CCBJ Business Achievement Award for Climate Change Adaptation Technology GNHRE partner, CLIMsystems has been recognised by the Climate Change Business Journal as a leading innovator of climate change risk and adaptation assessment tools and associated services. CLIMsystems has sold and applied its industry leading SimCLIM software system across a range of geographies…