Delaware Law School (U.S.) is pleased to announce a Symposium on Dignity Rights and Environmental Justice on 13 April 2018. The event, which will be held in Delaware and livestreamed, will examine environmental justice through the lens of human dignity and will explore how legal responses including the right to human dignity might alleviate the…
GNHRE welcomes three new members! Héctor Herrera-Santoyo’s work focuses on environmental justice, climate justice, energy justice, water justice, ecosystem protection, just transitions, environmental participation, indigenous rights, and environmental digital activism. You can read more about him here. Maria Antonia Tigre is a senior attorney at the Environment Program of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for…
What are the most iconic articles on the subject of environmental justice? Help us compile a list of essential readings in environmental justice by posting your suggestions in the comments below! Feature image: Dina Townsend
Issue 8.2 of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment on the theme “Crisis, injustice and response” is now available (see here). In particular, many of you will be pleased to see a co-authored article discussing “The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change” which was developed by this network. The issue contains the…
The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) proclaims climate change a human rights issue and releases a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change for Paris COP21 The GNHRE has issued a call-to-action for governments around the world in a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change (The Declaration) ahead of the…
