Human Rights and Environment
All human beings depend on the environment in which we live. A safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is integral to the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water and sanitation. Without a healthy environment, we are unable to fulfill our aspirations or even live at a level commensurate with minimum standards of human dignity. At the same time, protecting human rights helps to protect the environment. When people are able to learn about, and participate in, the decisions that affect them, they can help to ensure that those decisions respect their need for a sustainable environment.
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Organizations
Organization | Non-Governmental and Business Organizations
Amnesty International
Organization | Non-Governmental and Business Organizations
Center for International Environmental Law
CIEL
Organization | Non-Governmental and Business Organizations
Earthjustice
Organization | Academic and Training Institutions
Geneva Academy
Organization | Multilateral Environmental Agreements
UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
Aarhus Convention
Organization | Intergovernmental Organizations
UNEP Europe Office
Organization | Intergovernmental Organizations
United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
InforMEA
Organization | Intergovernmental Organizations
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR
Experts
Adriana Bessa
Adriana Bessa is a Senior Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
Amanda Kron
Amanda Kron is an Associate Expert on Climate Change and Environment at the United Nations Human Rights.
Baskut Tuncak
Baskut Tuncak is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes.
Benjamin Schachter
Benjamin Schachter is Associate Human Rights Officer at United Nations Human Rights.
David Azoulay
David Azoulay is the Managing Attorney of the Center for International Environmental Law’s (CIEL) Geneva Office and the Director of CIEL’s Environmental Health Program.
David R. Boyd
David R. Boyd is the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.
Fiona Marshall
Fiona Marshall is an Environmental Affairs Officer and the Secretary to the Compliance Committee at the Aarhus Convention of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
Giulia Carlini
Giulia Carlini is a Staff Attorney for the Environmental Health Program of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
Sébastien Duyck
Sébastien Duyck is Senior Attorney of the Climate and Energy Programme of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
Yves Lador
Yves Lador is the representative of Earthjustice to the United Nations in Geneva.Events
Event | Conference
44th Session of the Human Rights Council | HRC44
30 Jun – 20 Jul 2020
Palais des Nations
OHCHR
Event | Virtual
The Environmental Agenda of International Geneva
01 Sep 2020 09:00 – 10:00
Live | Webex Event & Facebook
GEN
Event | Conference
45th Session of the Human Rights Council | HRC45
14 Sep – 02 Oct 2020
Palais des Nations
OHCHR
Event | Conference
Twenty-fourth meeting of the Working Group of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (part 2)
29 – 30 Oct 2020
Palais des Nations
Aarhus Convention
Learning
Learning | Online Course
The Protection of Human Rights and the Environment
23 – 27 Nov 2020
Geneva Academy
Publications
Publication | Reports
Human Rights and the Environment | Proceedings of a Geneva Environment Network roundtable
2004
UNEP Europe Office