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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… iAEA Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management … in short, when the State becomes aware of an environmental risk, it must adopt positive measures of protection, … action it will take to address the environmental risk, is afforded a high margin of appreciation in light of …
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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) o Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) • International aid and financing for … for marginalized or discriminated against groups, who risk suffering the most from climate change (pages 24-27). … sanitation should be considered as crucial components of risk management. 28. Promote a human rights based approach to …
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UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015

… and Corporate Services PIMs Project Information and Management Systems POW Programme of Work PRC Project Review … as an integral part of the on-going management of its risk-based planning, and hold the relevant personnel … approach to the gender mainstreaming dimensions of UNEP’s risk management, listed at the end of this document. 99. The …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… 65 II RBA in the Community Forest Management Context … of a State to take reasonable measures to prevent such risk, or the necessary measures to respond when persons have … measures, including planning or land use laws and EIA or risk assessment procedures, should identify and commit to …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… the services they provide, such as food, water, disease management, climate regulation, spiritual fulfilment, and … necessary to prevent death from dehydration, to reduce the risk of water-related disease and to provide for consumption, … in developing countries can be linked to environmental risk factors.”21 A direct causality has been established …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… rights obligations related to environmental protection and management. Although not all of these practices may always be … Observatory aims to support environmental management and risk management through systematic observation of potential … on-site hazardous waste management practices cause serious risk to physical or human environments. Further Information: …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… a variety of contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and bene� t-sharing regimes, and proposed … initiative, it may be only a sub-set of rights that are at risk of being undermined, or that can be further fulfilled, … marginalized populations, and those whose rights are at risk of being violated …. Universality means that all people …
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Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

… to the resolution should fully consider the heightened risk posed by business activities to environmental human … or ineffective protection measures available for EHRDs at risk • In almost every affected Latin American country, … Integrate HRBA to their policies for fund allocation and management; condition their funds on such an approach in …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Defenders of the Earth

… deaths in more countries 8 Key Questions 10 > Who is at risk? 10 > What’s driving the attacks? 10 > Who is … are failing in their duty to protect activists at risk. They are permitting a level of impunity that allows the … navigate specific laws and contexts, establish risk management procedures, and design effective grievance …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report

… Groups of environmental human rights defenders at higher risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 V. Empowering … to the resolution to fully consider the heightened risk posed by business activities to environmental human … approach in their policies for fund allocation and management; condition their funds on such an approach, in …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance