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Right to a Healthy Environment Global Coalition Wins UN Human Rights Prize

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Climate justice advocates demonstrating for the Right to a Healthy Environment

Collective Advocacy on Biodiversity and Land Rights- COP 15 outcomes

On 19 December 2022, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, held in Montreal, ended with the adoption of the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), a landmark agreement on measures considered critical to address the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restore natural ecosystems.

Media Advisory: Grassroots, Global South, Feminist and Indigenous Leaders Demand Human Rights be Centered in Addressing Loss and Damage

There is no denying that the historical and present responsibility for the climate crisis lies primarily with wealthy, highly industrialized countries and powerful corporate actors. Despite contributing the least to the climate crisis, frontline communities in the Global South are paying the price with the destruction of their territories and the erasure of their cultural heritage.

UN Biodiversity: What Outcomes for the Human Right to Land?

Between 13-29 March 2022, intersessional meetings were held in Geneva ahead of COP15, an upcoming major United Nations biodiversity summit. Ahead of these preparatory talks amongst States, ESCR-Net members sent a collective letter calling on all Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to adopt a human-rights based approach overall, and in particular to recognize, respect, protect and promote the overarching right to self-determination, including free, prior and informed consent, the right to land and tenure rights in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), which is currently being negotiated and likely to be adopted at COP15. It further called on governments to adopt a ‘land tenure indicator’ as well as emphasized the importance of strengthening protections for human rights defenders.

Collective letter: Centering the Right to Land and Tenure Rights in the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Ahead of upcoming intersessional meetings in Geneva in March 2022, ESCR-Net members have adopted a...

Networkwide Exchange on Securing Land Rights for People and the Planet

On 27 April 2021, ESCR-Net co-hosted an online discussion on land rights. Over 50 members from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America, convened virtually to learn from each other’s experiences and strengthen shared analysis and...

ESCR-Net Members Address UN Committee on it's Opening of its Current 2020 Session

"For too long, brutal and illegal evictions have been terrorizing communities, even during a pandemic that requires us to stay at home for public health reasons. We therefore demand an end to all evictions in our cities. We demand an end to all land dispossession, utilities cut offs
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Preliminary Monitoring Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Human Right to Food and Nutrition

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Coronavirus: A Call for Solidarity in a Time of Crisis

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