With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access…
In late July, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a draft resolution recognizing the human right to…
In a global first, Brazil’s supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the…
It’s been five decades since Sweden hosted the world’s first conference to make the environment a major issue, in recognition…
With trillions of dollars under management, institutional investors play a pivotal role in enabling the climate crisis by financing fossil…
There is a growing political demand for climate security as a response to the escalating impacts of climate change, but…
On 8 October, loud and unusual applause reverberated around the chamber of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. A…
The UN Human Rights Council recognized this Friday, for the first time, that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a…
More than 10,000 migrants from Haiti converged on the US border at Del Rio, Texas. Their experiences are similar to…
People living in low-income countries are at least four times more likely to be displaced by extreme weather compared to…