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.
Andrés del Castillo
Andrés del Castillo is the Senior Attorney for the Environmental Health Program of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
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).
Francesca Mingrone
Francesca Mingrone is a Geneva-based staff attorney for the Climate & Energy Program of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
Giulia Carlini
Giulia Carlini is a Staff Attorney for the Environmental Health Program of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
Marcos Orellana
Marcos Orellana is the UN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights.
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 | Body Meeting
69th meeting of the Compliance Committee to the Aarhus Convention
25 – 29 Jan 2021
Online
Aarhus Convention
Event | Body Meeting
Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent public session | Environmental Justice, the Climate Crisis and People of African Descent
22 – 26 Mar 2021
HRC
Learning
Learning | Online Course
Introductory Course on SDG 16 and access rights, the Aarhus Convention, and the Escazú Agreement
InforMEA
Publications
Publication | Reports
Good Practices in Implementing the Right to a Healthy Environment | Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
2020
HRC
Publication | Reports
Human Rights and the Environment | Proceedings of a Geneva Environment Network roundtable
2004
GEN
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