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by Anna Guzman and Stephanie Yu *Welcome to Part 2! This is the second post of our two-part series on the differences between the UN Human Rights Council Resolution 48/13 and UN General Assembly Resolution A/76/L.75 affirming the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. (See the first post here.) In this second…
by Anna Guzman and Stephanie Yu Series Introduction On 8 October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) adopted Resolution 48/13 (henceforth referred to as the “HRC Resolution”), which recognized the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, and urged states within the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to consider the matter…
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Contribuição à Primeira Conferência Internacional sobre a Transição para a Não Proliferação de Combustíveis Fósseis por membros da Rede Global pelos Direitos Humanos e o Meio Ambiente (Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, GNHRE) e da Clínica Jurídica DEFEND-BIO. Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Stella Terjung, Maria Andrea Nardi, Clara Barbosa, Ji Yeon Kan Documento original…
Contribución a la Primera Conferencia Internacional sobre la Transición hacia la no proliferación de Combustibles Fósiles por miembros de la Red Global por los Derechos Humanos y el Medio Ambiente (Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, GNHRE) y la Clínica Jurídica DEFEND-BIO Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Stella Terjung, Maria Andrea Nardi, Clara Barbosa, Ji Yeon Kan…
Written contribution to the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels taking place in Santa Marta, Colombia, in April 2026, by members of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and of the DEFEND-BIO legal clinic Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Stella Terjung, Maria Andrea Nardi, Clara Barbosa, Ji Yeon Kang Art from the Caring…
By Héctor Herrera and Rafaella Sena Pinto Photo credit: Rafaella Sena Pinto. Demonstrators express support for the Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) for a Global Just Transition during a public mobilization in Belém do Pará, Brazil. On 15 November 2025, thousands of people from across Brazil and around the world gathered in the Amazonian city of Belém do Pará during COP30 on climate…
Written by Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh On Bonaire’s low-lying southern coast sit the so-called “slave huts”: small coral stone buildings that carry the physical memory of a colonial economy built on racialised coercion and extraction. In Greenpeace Netherlands v The State of the Netherlands (Bonaire), the District Court of The Hague notes that this tangible cultural heritage—alongside lighthouses and…
