Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

A United Nations agency focused on human rights is planning a report that covers food safety and fraud. A working group at ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday stressed the need to ensure the protection of environmental human rights defenders and bring their safety under a legal framework.

World Environment Day 2025 arrives amid a barrage of sobering news. Key developments around the world, however, offer a reminder that the global fight for environmental human rights is waged in ...

(Istanbul, July 3, 2025) – Türkiye’s administrative court in the province of Kahramanmaraş should scrutinize whether the environmental impact assessment used to greenlight a coal power plant expansion ...

A "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right and, if countries fail to take "appropriate action to protect the climate system", they could be in violation of international law, ...

The rights of indigenous peoples in international law / Fergus MacKay -- Global reach : human rights and environment in the framework of corporate accountability / Lyuba Zarsky -- Mining in Suriname: ...