On 24–25 March, our Campaign joined the first meeting of the @coe.int Steering Committee on the Environment (CDENV) in Strasbourg (and online), feeding into the implementation of the Environment Strategy.
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Great environment news from Chisinau, where the @coe.int recently held its High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter!
1️⃣ France officially notified the @coe.int of the extension of the applicability of the European Social Charter to its overseas territories and communities
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The worst part about chronic illness isn't always the pain. It's the uncertainty. Not knowing if tomorrow will be a good day or a bad day. Learning to plan around that is a skill nobody teaches you.
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness
Our Campaign welcomes that momentum is building among member States of the @coe.int to make concrete progress towards negotiations of a binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment!
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@coe.int Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty urges UN states to back the UNGA resolution and act on the ICJ’s 2025 climate opinion:
🌱 Accountability
⚡ #PhaseOutFossilFuels
🗳️ Protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll
The law, the science & human rights are clear. Political will must follow.
Our Campaign congratulates Austrian Member of Parliament Petra Bayr, who has been elected as the new President of @pace.coe.int!
In her opening speech, she stressed the need for @coe.int advances on the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment.
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Today, on #HumanRightsDay, we are reminded that human rights are not abstract ideals, but lived realities.
And one whose protection stands urgent is the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌱
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Our Campaign members showed up in force at #COP30 to advocate for the right to a healthy environment!
They made sure the message was heard loud and clear across the venue & outside.
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Our Campaign members were in attendance in Strasbourg last week to witness the opening for signature of the new @coe.int Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law!
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📢 On 19 November, a key side event at the Palais des Nations will focus on children, youth & Aarhus rights, and the growing recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌿
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Maria Sibylla Merian—An Artist Who Changed Science Forever
by Nicole Ganbold for @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social
www.dailyartmagazine.com/maria-sibyll...
We have launched the Disability Arts History Australia website!
-Visit the Disability Arts History Australia website at: disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net
-Visit the Padlet to create a post with information for the Timeline about a person, event, and/or organisation padlet.com/bree_hadley/...
📺 video-recording now available of conversation on #AdvisoryOpinion of International Court of Justice on #ClimateChange and its critical importance for #HumanRights
📺 tinyurl.com/3fsx6ybx
🌿 Join us, in person or online, along with my colleagues Special Rapporteurs Elisa Morgera and Pedro Arrojo
Two years after the @coe.int pledged action on human rights & the environment, it’s time to move past political statements.
At our @pace.coe.int side event, experts & leaders made it clear: Europe must start negotiations to legally protect the right to a healthy environment!
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UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes stresses that while right to #HealthyEnvironment is often undermined, advancing legal recognition & effective enforcement are priorities, where a key opportunity arises to understand and implement the legal obligations that states have.
📢 Call for Inputs | Clean Air 🌳
ALL INVITED to send your inputs for my 4° report!
With the objective of creating a further understanding of useful tools to include health impacts in environmental air pollution governance.
🗓Deadline: Oct 16th
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
Happening today ! 📣🌱
🔗Join us in Room 6 at Palais de l'Europe or via Zoom (no registration needed):
coe-int.zoom.us/j/6379361368...
Access code: 421303
Please join us for another online symposium on October 2nd 12-1pm BST with Andrea Garcia-Santesmases, Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero, Javier Monforte from Spain!
sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...
Most people around the world believe climate change is real and caused by humans. What is even more surprising? Most people—including the authors of this blog post—mistakenly assume the number of people who believe #climatechange is real to be lower than it is in reality.
spsp.org/news/charact...
With more than 60 countries on board, the new international law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean.
🌍 Climate justice meets human rights at #HRC60
🚨 Don’t miss this pivotal side event: “Implementing the Climate Advisory Opinions: A Human Rights Approach”
📅 Tomorrow - October 1
📍 Palais des Nations, Geneva
🕝 2:30–3:30 PM CEST
📺 Join live: bit.ly/4gLKvrv
A major survey of the 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier has just opened at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 2018, Katlijne Van der Stighelen wrote about curating the first ever exhibition dedicated to the Flemish artist
Quelles conséquences a le fédéralisme sur les #droitshumains en #Suisse ? Et quel rôle joue-t-il dans leur protection et leur promotion ?
Plus d'information sur cet axe thématique buff.ly/smXin8H
Reflecting on the rich discussion, UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes highlights key points:
🔸 Importance of access to justice & tackling related challenges
🔸 Need to better coordinate & collaborate
🔸 Importance of science in litigation
Pendant of cut-paper work between two sheets of glass with St Anthony of Padua among trees, birds, animals and putti with an inscription. In a gold frame with a pendant loop.
An example of a cut-paper artwork by #JoannaKoerten, held by the @britishmuseum.bsky.social -
This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers? -
by Meilan Solly for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...
Climate activist Niamh Purcell believes the @coe.int has one way to signal to young people it takes their demands for climate justice seriously.
Let's legally protect the right to a healthy environment, in a pledge for our shared humanity & future!
bit.ly/4nEpvFy
