GNHRE Events with an International Scope

2021

• In 2021, we hosted our first summer/winter school, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (organized by Dina Lupin and Angela Kariuki).

2022

• We co-hosted a thematic consultation to inform the General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change and prepared a White Paper and a repository of relevant resources to inform the consultation on children’s rights and the right to a healthy environment as part of the General Comment No. 26.
• We drafted and sent an advocacy letter to all of the UNGA ambassadors outlining some of the key reasons why all UNGA ambassadors should support UNGA recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
• We co-hosted the 7th Annual Rule of Law and Sustainable Development Seminar (2022) along with the University of Southampton Law School and Te Piringa Faculty Of Law, University Of Waikato. Participants in the GNHRE’s Climate Litigation in the Global South project presented their work in two special dedicated sessions.
• We hosted our 2nd Summer School, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, organised by Dina Lupin and Angela Kariuki. This year, the theme was WATER – From Oceans to Taps. The theme and programme was conceptualised and designed in collaboration with the One Ocean Hub.
• Led by our regional director for Asia, Uday Shankar, we co-hosted the International Conference on Rights of Nature for Sustainable Development in collaboration with Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.
• We co-hosted the on-line Symposium: Recognising the Right to a Healthy Environment: Actor Constellations, Processes and What’s Next, moderated by Andrea Schapper and Claudia Ituarte-Lima. The event was organized by the University of Stirling, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment.

2023

• we hosted three blog symposiums, one on Human Rights at COP26, the second on Rights-based Climate Change Litigation – Global and Regional Perspectives, and the third on the UNGA’s Consideration of the Right to a Healthy Environment.
• We launched the GNHRE’s own journal, the Environmental Rights Review. The Review is envisioned as a creative space for critically thinking about environmental rights.
• For the second year in a row, we hosted two interns from the University of Chicago. Stephanie Yu and Anna Guzman worked for the entire summer helping the management team implement all these new systems and ideas, while conducting novel and fascinating research under the guidance of the GNHRE’s Director. They published two insightful blog posts on the right to a healthy environment’s implications for vulnerable communities and the political dimensions of international environmental governance.