by admin | 20.10.21 | Uncategorized
By Melanie Montalban, Managing Lawyer – ACT and Claudia Hodge, EDO volunteer and Youth-Chair of the Environment and Human Rights Subcommittee, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights * In a landmark decision on 8 October 2021, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)...
by admin | 20.10.21 | Uncategorized
A group of 46 countries is set to vote in Geneva this week on a new mechanism to speed up the process of coming to the aid of environmental rights defenders amid rising cases of violence. Taking place every four years, parties will meet at the Palais des Nations under...
by admin | 13.10.21 | Uncategorized
Below you have the links to the final statement and the sign-on form, as well as a suggested summary text that you can use for communications. Please start circulating for signatures. The deadline for signatures is Octobre 15. The statement with all the signatures...
by admin | 12.10.21 | Uncategorized
Switzerland successfully put forward three initiatives to the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council. Together with Costa Rica, Morocco, the Maldives and Slovenia, it presented a resolution calling on the Human Rights Council to recognise the right to a safe,...
by admin | 12.10.21 | Uncategorized
Council adopts resolutions on the situation of humans rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, and on cooperation with the United Nations The Human Rights Council this afternoon appointed a Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the...
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