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
🇩🇪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
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
🇩🇪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
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.
🔸 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
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.
🔸 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.
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.
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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.
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Human rights & the environment are on the agenda of @coe.int this week.
As explained by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social, political leaders are under growing pressure to recognize the
right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in law across Europe.
www.endseurope.com/article/1905...
As explained by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social, political leaders are under growing pressure to recognize the
right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll in law across Europe.
www.endseurope.com/article/1905...
Why momentum is building to recognise the right to a healthy environment
Political leaders are under growing pressure to recognise the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in law across Europe. But the process is far from straightforward.
www.endseurope.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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 🧵👇
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 🧵👇
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.
❌ no protection for women environmental defenders,
❌ #HumanRights promotion, & the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll,
❌ #Intersectionality & gender diversity.
November 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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.
❌ no protection for women environmental defenders,
❌ #HumanRights promotion, & the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll,
❌ #Intersectionality & gender diversity.
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...
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
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...
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...
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 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.
🚨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.
5/8
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.
5/8
April 15, 2025 at 7:53 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.
5/8
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.
5/8
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
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!
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
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
Europe should be leading, not lagging, when it comes to human rights.
#TheTimeIsNow
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.
🇸🇳🇸🇨🇼🇸🇬🇲🇸🇮🇱🇰 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
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.
🇸🇳🇸🇨🇼🇸🇬🇲🇸🇮🇱🇰 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.
Amen to all that!
#SaveTheBees
#PlantMoreTrees
#CleanTheSeas
#CleanEnvironmentsIsAHumanRight
#HealthyEnvironmentForAll
#SaveTheBees
#PlantMoreTrees
#CleanTheSeas
#CleanEnvironmentsIsAHumanRight
#HealthyEnvironmentForAll
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January 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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
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
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
No more delays for a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll!
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
@srenvironment.bsky.social @srtoxics.bsky.social
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
📝 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Campaign: Updates, Insights, and Engagement” - we will discuss options ahead and ways to strengthen our collective voice.
📅 January 30
⏰ 1pm CET
📝 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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!
Ready to join our collective call? Sign up for this briefing!
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!
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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🚨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
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!
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!
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!
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
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!
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!
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!
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
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!
The @coe.int must act now to protect the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll through a binding legal instrument - communities deserve action!
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
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 ⚖️🌱
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.
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
🚨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
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.
The recognition of the right would be the real foundation for an ambitious environmental strategy that truly protects Europeans & the planet.
@partijnsc.bsky.social @nataschawingelaar.bsky.social @omtzigt.bsky.social @vvdonline.bsky.social @voltnederland.org @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org @mariekekoekkoek.voltnederland.org @cda.nl @derk.cda.nl – next week, stand for the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the Council of Europe!
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
@partijnsc.bsky.social @nataschawingelaar.bsky.social @omtzigt.bsky.social @vvdonline.bsky.social @voltnederland.org @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org @mariekekoekkoek.voltnederland.org @cda.nl @derk.cda.nl – next week, stand for the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the Council of Europe!
#HealthyEnvironmentForAll
Le @coe.int doit reconnaître le #Droit à un #environnement sûr, sain et durable.
C'est l'appel d'experts internationaux indépendants des Nations Unies.
@reseauactionclimat.org @michelforst.bsky.social @ciel.org
Le @coe.int doit reconnaître le #Droit à un #environnement sûr, sain et durable.
C'est l'appel d'experts internationaux indépendants des Nations Unies.
@reseauactionclimat.org @michelforst.bsky.social @ciel.org
Council of Europe must recognise the right to a healthy environment, UN experts urge
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the Ministers at the Council of Europe to demonstrate leadership by starting negotiations on an additional binding Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights...
www.ohchr.org
May 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#HealthyEnvironmentForAll
Le @coe.int doit reconnaître le #Droit à un #environnement sûr, sain et durable.
C'est l'appel d'experts internationaux indépendants des Nations Unies.
@reseauactionclimat.org @michelforst.bsky.social @ciel.org
Le @coe.int doit reconnaître le #Droit à un #environnement sûr, sain et durable.
C'est l'appel d'experts internationaux indépendants des Nations Unies.
@reseauactionclimat.org @michelforst.bsky.social @ciel.org
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.
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
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.
That protocol would be enforced by the @echr.coe.int, which had taken steps towards linking human rights with env. & climate issues.
#HumanRights were mentioned 6⃣6⃣2⃣times during oral hearings so far - including 4⃣4⃣references to the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.
December 10, 2024 at 9:37 AM
#HumanRights were mentioned 6⃣6⃣2⃣times during oral hearings so far - including 4⃣4⃣references to the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.
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!
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
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!
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!
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!
@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
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!
@ercscot.bsky.social urges @coe.int States to urgently begin the legal protection of the right as a cornerstone of equality & non-discrimination!
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!
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
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!
We wrote to Dutch political parties ahead of a Parliamentary debate to explain why.
One reason? This right also benefits responsible businesses!