From conservation & #humanrights, impacts of #ISDS, #foreigndebt & environment, #RightToHealthyEnvironment to many more, the GEN has co-organized & covered #HRC58 side & parallel events related to environment.
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"There is only one ocean; it is connected to everything, & should be addressed by holistic & comprehensive activities & perspectives."
Underscoring how #ocean issues are #humanrights issues, #GRET2025 aimed to advance the #RightToHealthyEnvironment. @srenvironment.bsky.social
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Environment-related resolutions adopted at #HRC58 include:
🔹 #RightToHealthyEnvironment | #Ocean & human rights
🔹 #ESCR
🔹 UN SR #RightToFood Mandate
🔹 Effects of Foreign Debt on HR
🔹 Human rights defenders #EHRDs
🔹 Anti-personnel mines
🔹 & more
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Discussing obligations to respect, protect & full human rights related to ocean, including #RightToHealthyEnvironment, this #GRET2025 will tackle ways forward in ensuring human rights are applied equally at sea as on land.
📅 17 March, 14:00 CET
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In the margins of #HRC58, join the #GENeva Rights & #Environment Talks gathering actors working towards ensuring the #RightToHealthyEnvironment for all, as #GRET2025 tackles various linkages between the #ocean and #humanrights. 🌊
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📅 13 - 17 March
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The GEN is at the #HRC58 side event on the #RightToHealthyEnvironment by International Action for Peace & Sustainable Development. Panelists highlight the challenges to R2E brought about by environmental damages due to militarization, ongoing colonization and conflicts.
Ghazali Ohorella of Int'l Indian Treaty Council stresses that ways for #RightToHealthyEnvironment to move from statement to implementation:
🔸 Respecting #IndigenousPeoples rights, including right to self-determination
🔸 Supporting their participation in decision-making
🔸 Protecting #EHRDs
"The #RightToHealthyEnvironment is a tool for better environmental & human rights policy."
Stressing the role of civil society in #RtHE implementation, Sandra Epal-Ratjen of ICJ provides various ways forward, including #EHRDs protection, #RuleOfLaw promotion & role of LRGs.
In a video, @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes stresses progress in the recognition of #RightToHealthyEnvironment contrasts with its implementation as unsustainable economic models, weakening of laws & frameworks, limitation of access to info and participation hinder its realization.
H.E. Alejandro Solano Ortiz of #CostaRica discusses ways to expand and multiply the transformative power of the #RightToHealthyEnvironment to include stronger collaboration and inclusion of local governments & of the private sector, while ensuring the protection of #EHRDs.
Retracing the difficult path faced in recognizing the links between #humanrights, #climatechange & #environment, H.E. Abdulla Khaleel of #Maldives underscores the urgency of recognizing the #RightToHealthyEnvironment, as "it is not mere aspiration, but an essential need."
"We hope today's discussion can identify concrete pathways from recognition to realization."
H.E. Amb. Salma Rasheed of #Maldives highlights that after achievements in recognizing #RightToHealthyEnvironment, the challenge of moving from commitment to concrete action remains.
"Our war on nature is also our war on human rights."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underscores the need for a new path that "breathes life" by achieving human rights through #ClimateAction, including increasing legal recognition of #RightToHealthyEnvironment.
#HRC58
With the #environment high on the agenda, the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council kicks off next week, as it tackles:
🌱 #RightToHealthyEnvironment
🪙 #ClimateFinance, Debt & #HumanRights
🌾 #RightToFood
✊ #EHRDs
🔹 & more!
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Grisselle del Carmen Rodriguez of #Panama, on behalf of #CostaRica, #Ecuador & #Peru, stresses that we have enough evidence of plastics' impacts on human rights & planetary boundaries. She underscores #PlasticsTreaty should be a tool to protect HR, including #RightToHealthyEnvironment.
Bringing in voices of impacted communities, testimonies stress the disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities waste workers impairs their #RightToHealthyEnvironment. They call for recognition, transparency & participation.
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In a pre-recorded message, @srtoxics.bsky.social Marcos Orellana underscores need for explicit #humanrights language, including #RightToHealthyEnvironment, in the #PlasticsTreaty, to address adverse HR impacts, address chemicals of concern across its lifecycle, and ensure accountability.
The 2nd session of the intersessional meeting on #humanrights & #2030Agenda discusses how the development of measures of progress on sustainable development that complement and go beyond GDP can integrate human rights, including #RightToHealthyEnvironment.
Calling for a review of the current debt architecture that supports #humanrights & #Agenda2030, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk highlights that the adoption of multidimensional vulnerability index is an important step forward, including achieving #RightToHealthyEnvironment.
Richard Ncube presents @unep.org activities organized at #HRC58:
🟢 Side event w/ @srenvironment.bsky.social on Core Human Rights Principles for Private Conservation Organizations and Funders (12 March)
🟢 Briefing with @unhumanrights.bsky.social on efforts to advance #RightToHealthyEnvironment (TBC)
With the #environment high on the agenda of #HRC58, the upcoming session will tackle:
🌱 #RightToHealthyEnvironment
🪙 #ClimateChange, Finance, Tax Debts & #HumanRights
🌾 #RightToFood
🔹 & more!
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Listen to @drdavidboyd.bsky.social, Former UN Special Rapporteur on #RightToHealthyEnvironment, reflecting on years of collaboration with the GEN & its role in gathering important resources on the #TriplePlanetaryCrisis.
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How does the GEN help in promoting the #RightToHealthyEnvironment?
🤝 Listen to UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes highlighting collaboration with the GEN towards effective implementation of #R2E.
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The GEN is at an informal dialogue by the #GENeva Biodiversity, Human Rights & Land Task Force with UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes.
Ahead of #UNOC3, the Special Rapporteur speaks on the #HRC58 report on #oceans & #RightToHealthyEnvironment, showing how "oceans are one".
Responding to questions, @srenvironment.bsky.social argues that we do not need a Convention for every single human right, and it is concerning that conversations lead to whether #RightToHealthyEnvironment is binding.
"We should not be losing track of what is important: implementation."
"How do we ensure that States have a consistent approach across fora?"
Francesca Mingrone of @cielorg.bsky.social is clear about the need to "break silos and ensure consistency" against pushback on #RightToHealthyEnvironment, in environmental fora or even at UN Human Rights Council negotiations.
We have other avenues and reasons to implement, more than just having a treaty."
In our efforts to advance implementation, Roberto Céspedes highlighted a strategy employed during #UPR sessions, where they pose open questions to all countries on #RightToHealthyEnvironment.
"Why do we need to put #R2E in a different standard than other human rights?"
Roberto Céspedes of #CostaRica argues that debating whether #RightToHealthyEnvironment is legally binding is a moot conversation, as 85% of States already have this obligation in Constitutions.
"While not legally binding, the #RightToHealthyEnvironment is far from symbolic but represents collective will of international community."
Baïna Ubushieva of Geneva Academy highlighted that though #R2E is not new, the UNGA resolution has accelerated its implementation.
Presenting further developments & challenges in the advancement of R2E, David Boyd, former UN Special Rapporteur on environment and human rights, highlighted various cases on where #RightToHealthyEnvironment have held States accountable to their people to protect the environment.
