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

… by four UN organizations and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Geneva, March 2017 … to fulfil individual’s human rights to life, health, water, food, work, culture, development, access to … to life, health, an adequate standard of living, food, water, housing, self-determination and means of subsistence, …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… Convention on the Non-Navigational Uses of International Water Courses; BRS Conventions, UN Framework Convention on … species, and trade in endangered species; ensuring conservation and sustainable use of environmental resources; … between CITES and FAO, CMS and RFMOs on shark and ray conservation. • Biodiversity related Conventions cooperate in …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

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

… human rights relating to the environment, including water, air, land, flora and fauna. Land and environmental … agribusiness 15 KILLINGS linked to hydroelectric dams and water rights 15 KILLINGS linked to logging According to Front … processes for indigenous communities that would ensure the conservation of their ancestral lands and recognize their …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and International Lakes with its 1999 Protocol on Water and Health and its 2003 (Kiev) Protocol on Civil … Fauna and Flora), fifteenth (i.e., 1979 Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals), twentieth …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report

… human rights relating to the environment, including water, air, land, flora and fauna. Land and environmental … (42 killings), agribusiness (20), hydroelectric dams and water rights (15) and logging (15) were major drivers of the … processes for indigenous communities that would ensure the conservation of their ancestral lands and recognize their …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 1) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… of South East Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) Agreement on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The 1979 … in the preamble of the 1992 UNFCCC, the 1999 Protocol on Water and Health to the Convention on the Protection and Use …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Guidance on the Practical Application of the Espoo Convention

… and International Lakes (http://www.unece.org/env/water) and the Convention on Access to Information, Public … context include activities with air pollutants or water pollutants, activities potentially affecting migrating … of origin but also on other Parties (e.g. pipelines in a water basin) 84. In the first case, the Parties should agree …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance