Sixty-nine years ago on December 10, 1948, forty-eight nations signed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights . This historic document ...

Human rights and environmental protection are interdependent. As affirmed by the former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and environment, professor John Knox, « while a safe, clean and healthy ...

FIDH shares the conviction at the basis of the report that human rights and environmental protection are interdependent, « while a safe, clean and healthy environment is essential for the enjoyment of ...

To John Knox, an expert on international environmental law and human rights law at Wake Forest University, a healthy environment is as important to human life as freedom of expression, ...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement. Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification, severe storms and related ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Thursday issued a landmark advisory opinion linking governments’ human rights ...

Environmental experts and the head of President Vladimir Putin’s Human Rights Council have called on lawmakers to reject a ...

The Human Rights Council passed the clean-environment resolution, which also calls on countries to boost their abilities to improve the environment, by 43-0 while four member states -- China ...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to provide a submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on children’s right to a healthy environment, in advance of its ...

South Korea is considering legislation that would impose legally binding human rights obligations on many companies operating ...

Human Rights and the Environment – EU Institutions Reach Political Agreement On Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Sam Eastwood , James Ford , Dr. Dylan Geraets , Edouard Gergondet ...

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has called on the Ebonyi State Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Victor ...