Resources Keyword 'protection against penalisation'
The report "Global Witness Annual Defenders Report 2023/2024: Missing voices – The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders " by Global Witness highlights the alarming and ongoing violence…
As part of the Secretary-General's Call to Action for Human Rights, a practical Guidance Note on Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) has been released urging the UN to provide increased…
On 6 May 2022, in a landmark win for advocacy efforts combating SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), anti-pesticide activist Karl Bär the Munich Environmental Institute (…
Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders @ForstMichel presented his vision for mandate to protect them under the @UNECE #AarhusConvention, in face of significant risks of…
The article analyses the scope of article 3 (8) the ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) prohibiting…
A decision establishing a rapid response mechanism for the protection of environmental defenders was adopted by the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is making a public call for inputs to solicit good practices related to the promotion and implementation of the environmental rule of law with a focus…
In September 2019, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and toxics presented a report (A/HRC/42/41) to the UN Human Rights Council, with fifteen principles to better protect workers from the…
The webinar on Environmental Human Rights Defenders is a joint effort by UN Environment and OHCHR develop a common UN system-wide understanding of the protection challenges faced by environmental…
An app was created in Kazakhstan to warn reporters of potential harms. "The project is designed to strengthen free, independent and pluralistic media and contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (…
