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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers … community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law, and the Division of Environmental Law and … Peoples (GEF Guidelines). In applying the GEF’s Minimum Standard 4, the GEF Guidelines provide that full and …
18 Jul 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

… were murdered in cold blood analysis on the situation of environmental human rights defenders and concrete … by : ROUDENN GRAFIK Manufactured to the most stringent environmental certifications Demonstration in Honduras in … d u c t i o n This happens in Honduras, where the renowned environmental campaigner Berta Caceres and her colleague …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Investments of development finance institutions: socio-environmental impacts and respect for rights

… Investments of development finance institutions: socio-environmental impacts and respect for rights CONSIDERING that … at major infrastructure and energy projects with a high environmental and social impact on local communities, which … and HIGHLIGHTING the fact that IUCN has developed an Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS), with a …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Book – Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) Book to Unit 3 – Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part II) Site: UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION … conducted Environmental Impact Assessment might serve as a standard for determining whether or not due diligence was …
18 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… supported by State practice, including in international environmental instruments and before human rights bodies. As … are intertwined with the en- vironment in which we live. Environmental harm interferes with the enjoyment of human … including the rights to life, to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to an adequate …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report

… rights”, including the rights to life, to an adequate standard of living and to the highest attainable standard of … is the first climate agreement, and one of the first environmental agreements of any kind, to explicitly recognize … obligations to protect the enjoyment of human rights from environmental harm (A/HRC/25/53). These obligations encompass …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Research (UNITAR) based on its course “Human Rights and Environmental Protection for Sustainable Development”, which … At the end of this lesson you will be able to: Explain how environmental harm can interfere with the enjoyment of human … their basic human rights to food, health, and an adequate standard of living are violated; When a government fails to …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group

EnvironmEntal Human rigHts DEfEnDErs A global crisis PoliCY … and recommendations 21 tAble of contents PrEfaCE Environmental human rights defenders (EHrDs) are individuals … life, the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and the right to an …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Defenders of the Earth

… Global Witness documented the murder of 200 land and environmental defenders in 2016. This report is dedicated to … bill that would allow drivers to run over and kill an environmental protester without facing jail.2 The bill was … with potentially affected groups.P IFC Performance Standard 7 too articulates expectations upon investors in …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report

… Summary The present report highlights the situation of environmental human rights defenders. In his report, the … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 D. Groups of environmental human rights defenders at higher risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 V. Empowering environmental human rights defenders . . . . . . . . . . . . …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance