UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

The UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies are the organisms from the international covenants that monitor the implementation of treaties mandated to review alleged violations, to individuals, of the rights contained in such treaties. For EHRDs to submit requests or individual...

Human Right´s Council Special Procedures mechanism

UN Special Procedures is the collective name for independent human rights experts mandated by the Human Rights Council to address either country-specific human rights violations, or to promote certain thematic human rights concerns. The UN Special Procedures mechanism...

Welcome to environment-rights.org

The portal has been designed and built following suggestions received from you, the world’s environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs). We hope you will find it useful as you continue your vital work to preserve the natural environment and to defend rights. EHRDs...