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Upcoming Canadian Country Visit of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics

Painting by Anna Grear

 By Associate Professor Sara Seck and JD candidate Meg Williams, Schulich School of Law, Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University. It has just been announced that the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and toxics, Baskut Tuncak, will conduct an official country visit to Canada from 24 May to 5 June 2019. The Special […]

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Update on the work of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment: relevance for states, businesses, and local environmental justice

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By Sara L Seck, Associate Professor, and Meg Williams, JD candidate, Schulich School of Law and Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. This is a re-posting of a Blog originally posted on September 5, 2018, on the Dalhousie Environmental Law News blog In this, my second post on the Dalhousie Environmental […]