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The world is beset by growing environmental problems including climate change that is melting the Arctic and declining stocks of fish and other wildlife. Liberalization of trade rules has added stress via increased resource extraction and the possibility of trade agreements' superceding domestic environmental protection laws worldwide, as corporations migrate to the Third World in search of lax rules and cheap labor and resources.
- Our Stories
 Inuit Get Human Rights Hearing on Global Warming
Representatives of the Inuit, Earthjustice and the Center for International Environmental Law have been invited to appear at a hearing scheduled by the Inter-American Conference on Human Rights.
 Read about the hearing |
- Recent Victories
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Earthjustice opens door to Methanex tribunalEarthjustice succeeds in convincing the Methanex tribunal that it had the authority to allow us to make written submissions in the case, opening the door to public participation. Establishing the Human Right to a Healthy EnvironmentEarthjustice's International program played a key role in convincing a United Nations expert to find that, under international law, "[a]ll persons have the right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment." |
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