Earthjustice Managing Attorney Martin Wagner gives testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

The coalition includes advocates in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, United States, and the request is supported by 127 organizations and 151 academics, experts, and individuals.

A coalition of international and Australian environmental and human rights lawyers are calling for the United Nations Human Rights Council to review Australia’s human rights record in light of the government's inaction on climate change.

The thematic hearing request is supported by 243 organizations, including petitioning groups from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, and the United States. The request urges the commission, which monitors human rights within the Organization of American States, to investigate human rights abuses resulting from the unchecked expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, across the Americas.

The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights has concluded a visit to communities in West Virginia to explore the human rights cost of mountaintop removal mining. In West Virginia on Thursday of last week (April 25), the UN Working Group conducted morning meetings with officials at the West Virginia Department of Environmental…

Human rights-based approach to environmental protection becoming international legal norm

Youth petitioners take fight for global climate change action to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

Environmental problems now seen as a human rights issue

More than 120 countries made recommendations to Australia to strengthen its protection of human rights

UN Commission on Human Rights Urged to Act

Country is striving to become carbon neutral as sea levels rise.

During the UN periodic review of Australia’s human rights record, a coalition of Australian and international lawyers is asking the United Nations to address Australia’s contributions to human rights violations through its actions that fuel the release of greenhouse gas emissions

The expansion of CAFOs, commonly known as factory farms, has caused a range of human rights abuses in the United States and across the American continents

Right to environmental health becoming international standard

Global warming radically affects Arctic peoples’ lives, cultures

The world is now meeting in Poland to tackle global warming

Nations must put human rights on their agenda at Copenhagen

Human right to a healthy environment becoming international standard