LJUBLJANA/GENEVA (6 October 2022) – Slovenia is a global leader in recognising the right to a healthy environment, but faces challenges in protecting this right, such as toxic pollution hotspots, lack...

GENEVA (27 September 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd, will visit Slovenia from 29 September to 6 October 2022. The visit takes place following the...

LISBON/GENEVA (27 September 2022) -- Portugal’s global leadership in recognising the human right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment needs to be matched by urgent, accelerated actions...

GENEVA (16 September 2022) -- The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David R. Boyd, will visit Portugal from 19 to 27 September. The Special Rapporteur’s visit at the...

GENEVA (10 August 2022) – UN human rights experts* today denounced a decision by Belarus to withdraw from an international agreement that implements the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur, challenges the conventional wisdom that the Sustainable Development Goals are mere aspirations, by highlighting the extensive human rights obligations that underlie the Goals. The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is identified as a catalyst for systemic changes and accelerated progress towards achieving the Goals.

GENEVA (3 August 2022) – UN experts* called on the Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation into the massive explosion in Beirut two years ago that killed more than 200 people and...

GENEVA (29 July 2022) – The arbitrary shutdown of hundreds of civil society organisations in Nicaragua is deeply concerning and would have a chilling effect on activists and human rights defenders...

NEW YORK (28 July 2022) – A UN expert hailed the adoption of a historic resolution by the United Nations General Assembly today, recognising for the first time, that everyone, everywhere, has a human...

GENEVA (22 July 2022) – Four years since a dam failure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic left at least 71 dead and thousands displaced and homeless, UN experts* have called on the Government and...