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Environmental Rights human rights
Climate
Insights
April 6, 2021

A Just Transition to a Zero-carbon World Is Possible. Here’s How.

  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • renewable energy
two men installing solar panels
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • renewable energy
Equity
Asia
Multimedia
March 8, 2021

Empowering People Against Pollution

  • podcasts
  • pollution
  • Environmental Rights
  • podcasts
  • pollution
  • Environmental Rights
Equity
Insights
February 11, 2021

5 Lessons for Securing Women’s Collective Land Rights

  • Equity
  • Forests
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Community forest
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Equity
News
January 22, 2021

STATEMENT: Escazú Agreement Moves A Big Step Closer to Making the World Safer for Environmental Defenders

  • governance
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • governance
  • human rights
  • land rights
Equity
Insights
October 22, 2020

Pollution Is a Racial Justice Issue. Let’s Fight it that Way.

  • human rights
  • pollution
Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate
  • human rights
  • pollution
Equity
Insights
October 15, 2020

Mongolia Shows How to Fight for Environmental Justice

  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • pollution
Mongolia
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • pollution
Equity
Insights
September 21, 2020

Rural Women Must Be at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery

  • Equity
  • Commentary
  • coronavirus
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Manioc farmer
  • Equity
  • Commentary
  • coronavirus
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Ocean
Insights
August 17, 2020

The Impact of Organized Crime in Fisheries Extends Far Beyond the Ocean

  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries
  • human rights
  • Ocean
A small fishing boat floating in the ocean.
  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries
  • human rights
  • Ocean
Equity
Initiatives
January 17, 2020

Defending Earth’s Defenders Initiative

Silas Matoke and his wife Yordana Yawate, pose for photograph as they harvesting sago known as 'pangkur' on the banks of the Tuba river in Honitetu village, West Seram regency, Maluku province, Indonesia on August 22, 2017.
Water
Insights
December 5, 2019

We Predicted Where Violent Conflicts Will Occur in 2020. Water Is Often a Factor

  • water scarcity
  • human rights
  • Water
  • water risk
Mali water
  • water scarcity
  • human rights
  • Water
  • water risk
Equity
Latin America
Insights
November 27, 2019

Chile’s Protests Offer Lessons on Social Inequality and Climate Action

  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Protests in Santiago, Chile
  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Cities
Latin America
Insights
November 1, 2019

What Chile’s Protests Reveal About the Country’s Transport Inequalities

  • Urban Mobility
  • human rights
  • transportation
Chile protests
  • Urban Mobility
  • human rights
  • transportation
Equity
Insights
August 8, 2019

The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

  • Equity
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • restoration
Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
  • Equity
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • restoration
Equity
Insights
July 10, 2019

Climate Action Will Shape People’s Lives. They Should Have a Chance to Shape Climate Action

  • Equity
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
climate migration
  • Equity
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
Africa
Insights
May 1, 2019

Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
Insights
April 5, 2019

Urban Transformations: In Durban, Informal Workers Design Marketplaces Instead of Getting Displaced by Them

  • Urban Transformations
  • Cities
  • human rights
  • South Africa
  • Urban Development
Warwick Junction
  • Urban Transformations
  • Cities
  • human rights
  • South Africa
  • Urban Development

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