Category: Environmental Rights Review Issue 1

By  Corina Heri, Linnéa Nordlanderand Annalisa Savaresi Between 2021 and 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the General Assembly passed resolutions explicitly acknowledging the ‘right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment’. These recognitions align with developments in the regional human rights frameworks that already enshrined this right. In the wake of these…

It is with great excitement that we find ourselves writing the editorial of the first volume of the new Environmental Rights Review, an open-access, online journal hosted by the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.

The relationship between climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, on the one hand, and migration and displacement, on the other, is a human rights topic of critical and growing importance. However, the conversation around environment and migration has tended to focus on security thus far. The humanity and agency of those who may…

by Maria Antonia Tigre[2] Published in Environmental Rights Review 1(1) 2023 pp 41-44 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301814 Download PDF here: Distinguished guests, and esteemed colleagues, it is an honor to stand virtually before you, today, as we gather to acknowledge the tremendous efforts of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and the World’s Youth for xClimate Justice.…

Three years ago, I sat choking on the thick black smog that filled my lungs and smothered my city. The Black Summer Bushfires were raging. Pregnant women were ordered indoors for fear of the impact the smoke inhalation would have on their unborn babies. 3 billion animals died or were displaced. 34 people perished. Thousands…