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Minjee Lee of Brandeis University developed this page in 2019.
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
Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change @ GNSHRE
· "resource portal for environmental human rights defenders"
Environmental Rights Database (ERDB)
Periodicals
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
Human rights & environment at the United Nations
· formerly the UN Commission on Human Rights)
· UN Mandate on Human Rights and the Environment
· UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
· A small UN body mandated by the UN Human Rights Council working within the scope of human rights and the environment.
Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC)
Human Rights & the Environment
UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
International, Environmental & Human Rights Law
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
· Human Rights and the Environment
· Human Rights and Climate Change
· Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally
sound management and of hazardous substances and wastes
Institutions
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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.”
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."
· “...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."
Human and Wildlife Trafficking Dashboards
Peace Brigades International (PBI)
Climate change & human rights
Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change
Water & human rights
Geneva Actions on Human Water Security
Human rights @ Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Human rights to Water and Sanitation @ UN Water
Right to Water and Sanitation Toolkit @ UNHCR
Right to Water and Sanitation website
Human 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.
Contents of this page:
· About environmental & human rights
· Resources & information
· Periodicals
· Human rights & environment @ UN
· Climate change & human rights
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