#HealthyEnvironmentForAll
6/ 🌰in a nutshell 3:
🇩🇪Germany opposed meaningful application of human rights law: questioning legal status of right to #HealthyEnvironmentForAll, rejecting rights of future generations and extraterritorial obligations, drawing dismay among many watching the proceedings
December 3, 2024 at 10:23 AM
The resolution:
🔸 Reaffirms the right to #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the same level as other recognized human rights;
🔹 Acknowledges that plastics pollution has human rights impacts & that States #ActOnPlastic, #PlasticsTreaty.
April 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A healthy environment is a prerequisite for the realization of all #HumanRights.

That is why it's critical that @coe.int Member States explicitly protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll within the European Convention of Human Rights.

A mini 🧵👇
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
But a LOT is missing from the #Gender text! Including:
❌ no protection for women environmental defenders,
#HumanRights promotion, & the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll,
#Intersectionality & gender diversity.
November 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Calling on European civil society!

Do you believe in a right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll?

Join us in demanding an additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights!

Ask your organization to sign up 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 AM
The resolution reaffirms the precautionary princiiple in the context of all activities related to 🌊 ecosystems; & calls on States to consider the right #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in the 🇺🇳 Ocean Conference, yet it fails to recognize the impacts of offshore fossil fuels activities.
April 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨The strategy now requires a solid backbone.
One that our group of 500+ organisations & 200+ academics keeps supporting.

An additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights to protect a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll amid urgent, global environmental challenges.

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April 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Today, Member States of the @coe.int have a chance to start to legally protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in Europe.

Europe should be leading, not lagging, when it comes to human rights.

#TheTimeIsNow
States must act now in a global environmental crisis.

Former UN Rapporteur @drdavidboyd.bsky.social urges @coe.int Ministers meeting in Luxembourg to start negotiating a binding instrument on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.

You've backed it at the UN, now make it real for Europe!
May 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Hot takes from day 8️⃣ of the #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ hearings:
🇸🇳🇸🇨🇼🇸🇬🇲🇸🇮🇱🇰 led a powerful defense of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll, demanding global accountability for big polluters
🇸🇨 🇬🇲 argued that environmental rights extend beyond borders
🇨🇭 indirectly attacked climate justice principles.
December 12, 2024 at 9:13 AM
UN experts urge @coe.int Member States to negotiate an additional protocol to the European Convention to protect the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment.

No more delays for a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

@srenvironment.bsky.social @srtoxics.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
3/🌰yesterday in a nutshell:
CRI, SLV, ESP, & FIJ pointed out that #HumanRights law require emission cuts -stressing legal nature of right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.

CRI & FIJ emphasized State's extraterritorial human rights obligations & their relevance to #ClimateJustice.
December 5, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Our Campaign has stood united & repeatedly engaged to ensure that the @coe.int takes urgent & effective action to deliver an Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.

Ready to join our collective call? Sign up for this briefing!
📢 Join us to “Get to Know the Right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the Council of Europe
Campaign: Updates, Insights, and Engagement” - we will discuss options ahead and ways to strengthen our collective voice.

📅 January 30
⏰ 1pm CET
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January 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
FIDH is one of the @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social members that contributed to the new @coe.int Strategy on the Environment.

It is our hope that in May, the Council of Ministers will decide to legally protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll as an urgent response to the triple planetary crisis!
Some good news from the @coe.int : in May, the Council of Ministers will adopt a Strategy on the Environment!

🚨But this comprehensive strategy now requires a solid backbone: Member States must commit to protecting legally the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!

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April 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
No one should have to fight for clean air, safe water & a healthy planet!

We fully agree with Aurora Floridia, Senator and member of @pace.coe.int.

It’s time @coe.int Ministers commit to making a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll an enforceable right through a binding instrument!
May 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Katarina & her unborn child face a bleak future due to pollution & vibrations from the Veliki Krivelj copper mine in Serbia.

The @coe.int must act now to protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll through a binding legal instrument - communities deserve action!
May 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
11/ 🇪🇸Spain's Oriol Solà Pardell delivers a particularly strong intervention demanding that the Court takes into account the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll as one of the key elements in its advisory opinion - fully unpacking the scope and legal basis for this right ⚖️🌱
December 4, 2024 at 3:27 PM
It's high time for the @coe.int to legally protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.

The recognition of the right would be the real foundation for an ambitious environmental strategy that truly protects Europeans & the planet.
Some good news from the @coe.int : in May, the Council of Ministers will adopt a Strategy on the Environment!

🚨But this comprehensive strategy now requires a solid backbone: Member States must commit to protecting legally the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!

🧵 1/8
April 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Adding a new protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights is the strongest way to recognise the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.

That protocol would be enforced by the @echr.coe.int, which had taken steps towards linking human rights with env. & climate issues.
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#HumanRights were mentioned 6⃣6⃣2⃣times during oral hearings so far - including 4⃣4⃣references to the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.
December 10, 2024 at 9:37 AM
The climate, pollution & biodiversity crisis is harming our health, says Denis Fernando of @friends-earth.bsky.social

At next week's @coe.int meeting, Ministers must support a binding instrument legally protecting the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll - foundational to all human rights!
May 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Every day in Scotland & Europe, the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll is violated—especially for communities in situations of marginalisation.
@ercscot.bsky.social urges @coe.int States to urgently begin the legal protection of the right as a cornerstone of equality & non-discrimination!
May 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The Netherlands must support an Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!

We wrote to Dutch political parties ahead of a Parliamentary debate to explain why.

One reason? This right also benefits responsible businesses!
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM