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A reflection on the Global Biodiversity Framework
Hub Director Elisa Morgera has been invited to join a panel organized by Prof John Knox, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, on the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The panel will be jointly hosted by the American Society of International Law and […]
Reflecting on Women’s Rights to a Healthy Ocean, based on the 2023 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
“Urgent, gender-transformative, rights-based climate and environmental action” is required to achieve gender equality and ecological sustainability– recently said the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment in his thematic report on women’s and girls’ human right to a healthy environment (A/HRC/52/33). Although the report does not refer often to women’s and girls’ human […]
The One Ocean Hub Contributes to the UN General Comment on Children’s Rights and a Healthy Environment
Following the One Ocean Hub’s positive initial feedback on Zero Draft UN General Comment No. 26 on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change (Zero Draft). The General Comment was released in November 2022 and included reference to biodiversity and the ocean, which was warmly welcomed across our networks. The […]
