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International environmental & climate security hub >
Contents below:
· About environmental & human rights
· Resources & information
· Periodicals
~ UN
~ Research
~ NGOs
· Climate change & human rights
· Select readings on climate change & human rights
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About environmental & human rights
What are environmental rights? @ UNEP
· A brief overview of environmental rights as defined and explained by under the UN system
Environment @ Human Rights Watch
Resources & information
Corporate Human Rights Abuses @ Center for Constitutional Rights
· "resource portal for environmental human rights defenders"
Environmental Rights Database (ERDB)
Periodicals
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
Institutions
~ United Nations ~
Key messages: Human rights and the environment
Environmental law and Governance
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
· formerly the UN Commission on Human Rights
· UN Mandate on Human Rights and the Environment
· UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
· Climate Change and the Environment
· Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Healthy Environment
· Special Rapporteur on the environment
· A small UN body mandated by the UN Human Rights Council working within the scope of
human rights and the environment.
· Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights
~ Research ~
Environmental Human Rights Defenders @ Lund University
· Subtitle: "Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation"
~ NGOs ~
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Natural Resources and Just Energy Tansition
Constitutional Accountability Center
Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights @ UMASS-Boston
· "...a Colombia-based research and advocacy organization dedicated to the strengthening of the
rule of law and the promotion of social justice and human rights in Colombia and the Global
South. We promote positive social change by producing rigorous studies and fact-based policy
proposals; carrying out effective advocacy campaigns or litigating in the most impactful forums;
and designing and delivering education and capacity-building programs."
EarthRights International (ERI)
· "...a non-governmental, non-profit organization that combines the power of law with the power
of people in defense of human rights and the environment, which we define as “earth rights.” We
take legal action against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, train activists, and work with
communities to demand meaningful and lasting change.”
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Environment and Human Rights Advisory (EHRA)
Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC)
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW)
· “ELAW is a global alliance of more than 300 advocates in 80 countries working to defend human
rights and protect the planet."
• Mission: "to protect vulnerable people and wildlife from organized crime and corruption, while
revitalizing ecosystems and communities for a more secure world. Our vision is a world free of
wildlife trafficking and human slavery."
Friends of the Earth International
Defending territories and peoples' collective rights
· “...an international human rights organisation founded in Dublin in 2001, with the specific aim
of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs).
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)
Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE)
· "We are a global network of thinkers, researchers, policy-makers, opinion-formers and community
activists whose diversity forges new conversations and relationships. We produce, exchange and
learn from world-leading scholarship and insights drawn from community-embedded experience
and praxis at the interface between human rights and the environment all over the world."
· "...we protect human rights and the environment by fearlessly confronting corruption and challenging the systems that enable it."
Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative (RecollectiV)
Peace Brigades International (PBI)
Climate change & human rights ("Climate rights")
Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change @ OHCHR
Water & human rights
Geneva Actions on Human Water Security
Human rights @ Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Human rights to Water and Sanitation @ UN Water
ROHCHR and the rights to Water and Sanitation
Right to Water and Sanitation website
Select readings on human rights & climate change
· Reverse chronological order
Human rights, Environmental Rights, and the Right to Environment
· 2012 ~ Dinah Shelton ~ Routledge
· Provides insight on the relationship between human rights and environmental protection.
· Explores differing opinions on these topics, essential to discussions of formulating policy and international
law, including how environmental rights might refer to reform and expansion of existing human rights practices.
Integrating human rights at the UNFCCC: OHCHR and climate change
· 2024 ~ OHCHR
· Provides transparent and factual information on the processes taken by UN organizations to integrate
human and environmental rights into international law.
· Covers how human rights have been integrated in the UNFCCC, providing a timeline of their rights-based
approach to guide global climate change policies and action.
Human rights, environmental rights & climate rights
The intertwined topics of human rights and environmental rights relate to the conviction that every person, regardless of economic status, has the right to live in an environment that does not degrade health and livelihoods.
