#HealthyEnvironment
Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a landmark resolution on the ocean & HRs, affirming the human right to #HealthyEnvironment.
I’m honored that my report on the ocean & HRs is recognized and was useful for it🌊🌍
HRC Resolution 👉🏽 docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/58/...
April 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Celebrating the @coe.int foundation 76th Anniversary should be honored by starting the negotiations for a binding protocol to protect the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all Europeans.
#HealthyEnvironment
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#Gesundheit ist den meisten Menschen unglaublich wichtig! Manches kann ich selbst dafür tun. Für anderes braucht es eine sichere Umwelt. Die zu garantieren ist Aufgabe der Politik. Laut einfordern müssen *wir* die gesunde Umwelt trotzdem!
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#HealthyEnvironment
Es gibt seit kurzem ein UN Menschenrecht für eine healthy environment, das gleiche wird au EU Ebene diskutiert. Da muss dann wohl wieder geklagt werden, unsere Regierung/en schützt/en uns nicht.
February 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
As we celebrate five years of the recognition of the right to a #HealthyEnvironment, we continue our shared efforts to make the right to clean, healthy and sustainable environment a reality, for the benefit of people's lives today and for generations to come.
September 24, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Former UN Special Rapporteur David Boyd shares how the right to #HealthyEnvironment has been a catalyst for action:
🔸 Stimulating general comments from UN Treaty Bodies
🔸 Putting human rights at the core of #KMGBF
🔸 Supporting advisory opinions on climate change
🔸 & more.
September 24, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Sarah Barnier-Leroy of @coe.int highlights that though Europe remains to be the only region where regional human rights system does not explicitly enshrine right to #HealthyEnvironment, discussions are ongoing for development of an instrument on envt. and human rights based on R2HE.
September 24, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Today at #HRC63!

Ahead of the 5th anniversary of the recognition by the Human Rights Council of the right to #HealthyEnvironment, join this celebration as we take stock of progress and identify steps to advance the right.

@srenvironment.bsky.social

📆 24 September, 12:00 CEST
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September 24, 2026 at 8:48 AM
🌳 TOMORROW! Join us this Thursday to mark the 5th anniversary of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment:

🗓️ Thursday 24 September
⏰ 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
🏛️Room Concordia 1, Palais des Nations, Geneva

#HealthyEnvironment
September 23, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Looking forward to the meeting tomorrow, and trusting that parliamentarians from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 will also support the recognition by the Council of Europe of the human right to a hashtag #HealthyEnvironment
Thank you, Aurora Floridia, for your support for the legal protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int!
@pace.coe.int members are once again showing leadership on this crucial issue.
Ministers must do the same at their May meeting - time to act NOW & recognise the right!
April 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
CIEL welcomes the press release from UN Special Rapporteurs on the human and environmental impacts of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS):

🔗 bit.ly/4hmuCYH

As negotiations unfold, states must act to dismantle ISDS and protect people and the planet.

#UNCTAD16 #OEIGWG11
#humanrights #bindingtreaty #healthyenvironment #humanrights #healthyenvironment #unctad #bindingtreaty #accoubtability | Astrid Puentes Riaño
STATEMENT: As UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, along with SR on climate change and human rights Elisa Morgera and SR on the right to developme...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
7 April is #WorldHealthDay!

This day is a reminder that our health depends on a #HealthyEnvironment.

In the face of the #TriplePlanetaryCrisis, learn how #GENeva strives to ensure a healthy people and a healthy planet ▶️ tiny.cc/GENOneHealth
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Worrisome news from US courts regarding claimed SLAPP action vs Greenpeace for their work supporting Standing Rock & Indigenous Peoples Rights

✅Public participation
✅ Access to justice, including due process are procedural elements of the right to #HealthyEnvironment
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/c...
Greenpeace Is Ordered to Pay Energy Transfer, a Pipeline Company, $660 Million
The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Underscoring the crucial role of the recognition of the right to #HealthyEnvironment, UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes Riaño highlights the importance of linking states' obligation to protect the environment and prevent significant harm, including conducting rights-based EIA.
September 25, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Discussing legal & institutional developments still needed to strengthen the right to #HealthyEnvironment, Sandra Epal Ratjen of @icjurists.bsky.social spotlights:
🔸 Further Constitutional protection
🔸 Mainstream beyond envt. domains
🔸 Engagement of ministries
🔸 Boost NHRIs & justice systems
September 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🤓☝️Check out this infographic from @ocera.bsky.social about the impacts of a fundamental right to a healthy environment🌱

#healthyenvironment #climatecrisis #endtheeraoffossilfuels #climatechange
December 7, 2024 at 11:25 PM
As we have achieved recognition of the right to a #HealthyEnvironment, panelists highlighted the importance of continuing to mainstream and strengthen the right to a healthy environment, towards in implementing it in a collective and collaborative way.

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September 24, 2026 at 1:03 PM
The celebration of the 5th anniversary of the recognition by the UN Human Rights Council of the human right to a #HealthyEnvironment continues in #GENeva!

Gathering for a reception at Palais des Nations, Member States, NGOs & civil society commemorate this important milestone.
September 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
January 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Angela Kariuki of @unep.org shares opportunities to seize to bring in rights in environmental decisions and strengthen the implementation of the right to #HealthyEnvironment: regional level mobilization, 1st Review of #KMGBF, & embedding human rights principles in energy transition.
September 24, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Stressing the implementation of right to #HealthyEnvironment must be consistent with #UNDRIP, Juan León Alvarado of IITC stresses that the way forward is ensuring that protection of the environment and protection of rights of #IndigenousPeoples must advance together.
September 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM
The next five years must be devoted to implementation, Abdessalam El Ouazzani highlights. As #Morocco takes the pen for the next Council resolution, it will carry the responsibility to build broad consensus & advance effective implementation of the right to #HealthyEnvironment.
September 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I contributed to @UN Working Group on #RighttoDevelopment on #HumanRight to #HealthyEnvironment, #Children rights & @CIJ_ICJ #AdvisoryOpinion on #ClimateChange

based on

📘 my report on #Defossilization tinyurl.com/46fwbnz3

✉️amicus to African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights tinyurl.com/y7vfsxdx
May 22, 2026 at 6:41 AM