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Time for Europe to Recognize the Right to a Healthy Environment

On the eve of World Environment Day, I joined around 400 environmental defenders and policymakers from across Europe in Strasbourg, France, where they gathered at the first Europea...

Aarhus Convention: the public loves it, States not so much

The Aarhus Convention is an international agreement that gives people three core rights: the right to access information about the environment, the right to take part in decisi...

RDI, Pilex Launch Study to Assess Nigerians’ Access to Environmental Rights, Justice

The Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) and the Pilex Center for Civic Education Initiative have announced plans to assess how Nigerian communities access environmental rights, i...

An environmental lawyer called on Tuesday for New Brunswick to be the first Canadian province to…

New Brunswick should enshrine into law the right to clean water, says lawyer - New Brunswick | Globalnews.caAn environmental lawyer called on Tuesday for New Brunswick to be the fi...

Climate pledges will fail without human rights protections, rights group warns

Amnesty International on Friday urged states attending the June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany, to turn existing climate commitments into a concrete, rights-centered action plan...

Protecting Environmental Rights Defenders Is Key to Giving Communities a Voice

Environmental human rights defenders must be empowered to design and implement their own forms of collective protection to shift the power imbalance. The post Protecting Environmen...

River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution

Charter to be adopted along river’s entire catchment from Cambrian mountains to Chepstow and Bristol ChannelThe entire catchment of the River Wye has been formally recognised as a...

Rights of Nature Laws Are Coming Up Against Legal Systems Designed for Destruction

July 02, 2026 | Source: Inside Climate News | by Katie Surma Years after landmark court rulings in Colombia and Bangladesh recognized rivers as legal persons, the waterways remain...

A major Welsh river has just been given rights – here’s why it matters

The River Wye has been recognised as a living ecosystem with intrinsic rights in a new charter, a UK first that campaigners hope will strengthen the fight against pollution.

Rights of Nature by Tribal and First Nations Learning Session

May 29, 2026 | Source: EventBrite | by Kincentric Leadership &The Repatterning Collective Join us for an ONLINE LEARNING SESSION for practitioners, as part of the Co-creation...

Canadian town grants rights to … trees?

Wesley Smith writes for National Review Online about another bizarre action from a government north of the border. In Quebec, a small town has granted “rights” to trees. From the C...

Is Deep-Seabed Mining Compatible with the Human Right to a Healthy Environment? Insights from the ICJ and IACtHR Climate...

In 2025, following the 2024 advisory opinion (AO) of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on Climate Change (here), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the In...

New York Adopts Regulatory Amendments Implementing Environmental Justice Law

Environmental Justice Developments in 2026: States Take the Lead, Feds Recede

Background The compliance landscape remains active and dominated by varying state approaches to advancing environmental justice (EJ) at the state level. As noted in a previous upda...

UN Climate Resolution: Time to Protect Activists

LONDON, June 5 (IPS) - Ahead of World Environment Day, the UN General Assembly made a vital commitment to protect people from climate impacts, adopting a resolution on the climate...

Are Our Rights Blessed by God, or Begrudged by Government?

In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity. Source

Small Canadian Town Recognises Trees As Living Beings With Rights

Terrasse-Vaudreuil adopts a resolution supporting the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.

The Environment Dies in Darkness

It’s not a coincidence that the title of this post is taken from what used to be the motto for the Washington Post until its billionaire owner decided that democracy was not, after...

Residents Demand Tougher Action as Water Pollution Threatens Harare’s Health

By Kudzaishe Chimonera Residents’ organisations have called for tougher enforcement of environmental laws and urgent legal reforms to curb water pollution, warning that contaminati...

UN expert preparing report on Aughinish Alumina for human rights committee

Special rapporteur has interviewed locals about concerns regarding soil, air and water contamination

Heatwave rights you need to know as temps set to soar in North East again

Learn your rights for working in high temperatures as the North East nears heatwave temperatures

The Town That Gave Trees Legal Rights

In a small Quebec town of 2,000 people, something quietly extraordinary happened on June 9th: city council voted unanimously to recognize trees as living beings with rights of thei...

Natural, Thus Universal, Human Rights

Casey Chalk, The Acton Institute It was admittedly a surprising circumstance for a debate on natural rights. On September 4 of last year, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was speaking dur...

Know your Rights as an immigrant

Know your Rights as an immigrant rmedley@afsc.org Mon, 06/01/2026 - 16:26 Resource URL /know-your-rights Featured Image...