The Guidelines offer timely support for States to protect public participation and to ensure access to justice and effective remedies when these rights are violated.
✍🏽 @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social @ginitastar.bsky.social Mrcos Orellana & @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social
Environmental harm and shrinking civic space are parallel, by silencing those who speak out in defense of ecosystems. That’s why public mobilization is a vital tool facing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution.
We are deeply concerned by the growing criminalization and repression of people and organizations defending their right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, who exercise their rights to information, public participation, and justice under the #AarhusConvention.
Last month, I sent a letter along with 4 @un-spexperts.bsky.social to the #AarhusConvention welcoming the Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience, issued by @ForstMichel.
🔗 Letter www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
🔗 Report webpage, to download documents, annexes, and graphics: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
📄 Full report: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/47
📄 Executive summary: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Therefore, it is not limited to these groups; environmental and health sectors, organizations, movements, and people in every corner of the world can join together and ensure that priority actions are taken to breathe #CleanAir.
⬇️ My latest report is a CALL TO ACTION. The recommendations provided for States, governments, intergovernmental entities, and companies are based on cases from around the world.
✅ The most important thing is that the air pollution crisis can be solved.
The combination of the health effects of air pollution with climate risks, especially extreme heat, creates a double burden that increases the risks faced by vulnerable populations. This affects our human rights, including the right to a #healthyenvironment.
🌎 As a mother, the impacts of air quality on children have been one of my constant concerns. Almost all human beings are exposed to polluted air, but children are among the most affected populations because their bodies are still developing.
🔗 Report website, to access the full report, executive summaries, download documents, annexes, and graphics: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Therefore, States have the obligation to ensure that there are regulatory frameworks that monitor, control, and guarantee an air quality free of risks.
🪁Our lives, our health, our dignity, and the possibility of realizing our dreams depend on air quality.
🫁 Breathing clean air is a substantial element of the human right to a healthy environment, but it is also vital for enjoying the right to health and the right to life.
Today, on #WorldHealthDay, although it is difficult to digest, I want to emphasize the information I gathered in my report on air: from before we are born, our bodies are affected by air pollution, and these impacts are worse the closer we are to polluting sources.
🌎 92% of premature deaths related to air pollution occur in developing countries.
Por ello, los Estados tienen la obligación de asegurar que hayan marcos normativos que monitoreen, controlen y garanticen una calidad del aire libre de riesgos.
🪁 Nuestras vidas, nuestra salud, nuestra dignidad y la posibilidad de realizar nuestros sueños dependen de la calidad del aire.
Respirar aire limpio es un elemento sustancial del derecho humano al ambiente sano, pero también es vital para gozar del derecho a la salud y el derecho a la vida.
Hoy, en el #DíadelaSalud , aunque es difícil de asimilar, quiero enfatizar la información que recopilé en mi informe sobre aire: desde antes de nacer, nuestro cuerpo es afectado por la contaminación del aire y estos impactos son peores cuando hay mayor cercanía a las fuentes contaminantes.
🌎 92% de las muertes prematuras relacionadas con la contaminación del aire ocurren en países en desarrollo.
🔗 Página del informe, para descargar documentos, anexos y gráficos: www.ohchr.org/es/documents...
📄 Informe completo: docs.un.org/es/A/HRC/61/47
📄 Resumen ejecutivo: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Por ello, no se reduce a estos grupos, los sectores ambientales y de salud, organizaciones, movimientos y personas en todos los rincones del mundo pueden unirse y vigilar que se tomen acciones prioritarias para respirar #AireLimpio.
✅ Lo más importante, es que la crisis por la contaminación del aire se puede solucionar.
⬇️ Mi último informe es un LLAMADO A LA ACCIÓN. Las recomendaciones ahí dadas para Estados, gobiernos, entidades intergubernamentales y empresas están basadas en casos en todo el mundo.
La combinación de los efectos de la contaminación del aire en la salud con los riesgos climáticos, en especial el calor extremo, crea una doble carga que aumenta los riesgos para las poblaciones vulnerables. Esto afecta nuestros derechos humanos, incluyendo al #ambientesano.
Casi todos los seres humanos estamos expuestos a aire contaminado, pero son las niñas y los niños una de las poblaciones más afectadas porque sus cuerpos están en desarrollo.
🌎 Como mamá, los impactos en la calidad del aire en las infancias han sido una de mis preocupaciones constantes.
📅 April 7, 2026
🕘 09:00–10:45 (GMT+3)
📍 Online
🔗 temizhavahakki.org/en/
WEBINAR | WORLD HEALTH DAY
Breathing Clean Air as a Human Right
Join our international webinar on April 7 exploring the links between air pollution, health, climate and human rights.
🔗 Report webpage, to download documents, annexes, and graphics: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
📄 Full report: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/47
📄 Executive summary: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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#CleanAir #HealthyEnvironment #AirQuality
We are witnessing a systemic violation of the rights to equality and non-discrimination: 92% of premature d eaths occur in developing countries. Intensive polluting activities are often located close to marginalized communities, sometimes these areas are called “sacrifice zones.”
