The Third Annual GNHRE Symposium The third annual GNHRE symposium will take place at the 2014 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium, to be held in the beautiful city of Tarragona, Spain. The Colloquium runs from 30th June – 5th July – and the GNHRE Symposium takes place on 30th June and 1st of July…
The first GNHRE Annual Symposium was held in 2012 at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain. The symposium brought together thinkers committed to re-imagining the nexus between human rights and the environment. The edited collection of papers resulting is published by the Onati Institute in their well-respected socio-legal series. The…
Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 – Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change (Working Panel 3) Professor Conor Gearty (Director of the Institute for Public Affairs, LSE, and GNHRE member) chaired Working Panel 3 at the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 in Berlin, November 14th and 15th. Panel members : Professor Henry Shue (Oxford); Mary Robinson (Director of the…
New Core Team Members: Towards New Partnerships The GNHRE Core Team has recently been expanded by the addition of two new members responsible for Indigenous issues: Valmaine Toki, our new Indigenous Coordinator – also a Vice Chair on the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – and Catherine Irons, our new Indigenous Research Officer….
In its March session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on human rights and the environment, and has decided to appoint an Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment. (19th Session, A/HRC/19/L.8/Rev.1, 20 March 2012). The resolution can be accessed via the link below: Human Rights and Environment Resolution March 2012
