Water, Toxic Wastes, Climate Change | Environment-related resolutions under the Human Rights Council

Agenda

Introduction – human rights and the environment
Yves Lador, Earthjustice Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva

Human rights and the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous wastes
Melissa Fernandez, Special Procedures Division, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation
Claude Cahn – Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions

Human rights and climate change
Ambassador Abdul Ghassor Mohamed & Marc Limon, Permanent Mission of Maldives
Stephen Humphreys, International Council on Human Rights Policy
Nathalie Bernasconi, Center for International Environmental Law

Discussion