🎉 BREAKING: The UN General Assembly has passed by consensus the resolution calling for an ICJ advisory opinion on climate change and human rights

The UN has passed a historic resolution seeking an advisory opinion from the ICJ on climate change. Our campaigner Vishal Prasad explains what you need to know about this momentous day for our planet 🌏⚖️

👉“Lineamientos de género para el cumplimiento y la vigilancia del Acuerdo de Escazú. Saldrá un documento sobre enfoque de género”. 📅21 de abril. ⏰17hs. 💻Modalidad virtual. ✍️Inscribite acá: bit.ly/3oe0maX

Join us at the #COP2 side-event “#EscazúAgreement innovations contributing to the #global #biodiversity targets”. Ana Di Pangracio Luz Fernandez, Raul Montenegro José Rodríguez-Orúe. Raoul Wallenberg Institute @GnhreCommunity UN Development International cooperation at Swedish EPA FARN World's Youth for Climate Justice x.com/rwallenbergins…

‘Green colonialism’: Indigenous world leaders warn over west’s climate strategy theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…

Please retweet if you agree: Children have the right to live in a healthy environment. Time for Council of Europe to step up and add this right to the European Convention on Human Rights (only regional human rights system where right to a healthy environment is not recognized!)

How is the fight for climate justice related to nuclear disarmament? Join us at Lund University for a dialogue with #RightLivelihood Laureate Alyn Ware to discuss the nexus of climate justice and peace! Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/45swU2j

⁦@JakartaRwi⁩ & ⁦RWI_Nairobi⁩ joined ⁦Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Neshan Gunasekera⁩ & I ⁦Raoul Wallenberg Institute⁩ in Lund this week to discuss methodologies & experiences working at the intersection of human rights & environment, healthy ecosystems and #disasterdisplacement

Thematic Leader of HR and the Environment, Claudia Ituarte-Lima says: The recognition of the right to a healthy environment by the UN is already having an impact not only on human rights law but also on #EnvironmentalLaw such as in the UN Biodiversity #GlobalBiodiversityFramework

A vital challenge remains on safeguarding #healthy #ecosystems and #biodiversity that underpin the realization of this right by everyone, everywhere particulalry in the Global South. #GBF #biodiversity #ClimateChange

@Morten_RWI - I am pleased that the Raoul Wallenberg Institute has been engaged in the development of the new standards. Over the past 15 - 20 years, we have been unwaveringly committed to developing the link between protecting #HumanRights, our #environment and #ClimateChange.

El Tribunal Internacional de los Derechos de la Naturaleza anuncia el lanzamiento del veredicto sobre el caso del "Tren Maya" a través de un webinar. 🗓️ Miércoles 26 de julio de 2023 ⏰ 12:00 (hora Ecuador) - 11:00 (hora México) 🔴 EN VIVO por: bit.ly/webinar-trenma…

'Protecting Biodiversity through Regulating Trade and Business Relations'. Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima is principal investigator (RWI) and Dr. Radu Mares is part of the research team, who will work collaboratively on this three-year project. buff.ly/3pTGCuJ

#IUCNAEL2023 Panels Day 2, Biodiversity - Claudia Ituarte-Lima "We need to think about vulnerability coupled with solidarity; values of nature together with values of intergenerational and interspecies justice.”

What are State’s obligations concerning #biodiversity & #R2HE? How #women and #youth defenders contribute to socio-ecological #transformations ?. Check out my paper on Biosphere Defenders Leveraging the Right to Healthy Environment. content.iospress.com/articles/envir…

Breaking news! Decision from the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights in one of the most horrific environmental disasters of our time--dumping of toxic waste from a Trafigura ship called Probo Koala in Abidjan, the capital of Cote D'Ivoire. 17 deaths and many thousands ill

Bravo! The world has agreed to the new Global Framework on Chemicals. The Framework provides a vision for a planet free of harm from chemicals & waste. Critical to now accelerate implementation. Deep thanks to #ICCM5 President Anita Breyer & to the leadership of Germany.

👥 Civil society advocates have come together with representatives of States & United Nations bodies today to celebrate the UN General Assembly's recognition of the #RightToAHealthyEnvironment & discuss how to protect & promote this right moving forward. ⚖️

New episode of Economics for Rebels! I interview incredible human rights lawyer & academic Claudia Ituarte-Lima about the links between human rights law & biodv loss, & the people standing against environmental degradation on the front lines: biosphere defenders open.spotify.com/episode/0TZOcx…

Announcements, 1 March '24 -Calls for works from ABILA and ARU -Opportunities with UvA Amsterdam, Universitetet i Oslo & Wageningen Law -Events from Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), Grantham LSE & Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) -New releases from Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Harro van Asselt & more gnhre.org/?p=17886