The UN’s mid-year climate meetings have opened in Bonn, and pressure is mounting for climate negotiations to deliver policies grounded in human (…)

Authorities are cracking down on rights activists fighting for Indigenous people threatened by authoritarianism, extractivism and climate breakdown

The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure

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COP30 delivered the decision to develop a Just Transition Mechanism to advance climate action with human rights and broad participation at its (…)

The Santa Marta Conference in April is aiming to galvanise the implementation of a fossil fuel phaseout after COP30 failed to do so. Brazil’s COP (…)

The European Commission is planning to update the European Union (EU) Arctic Policy, shaping how the Union will engage in a region with unique (…)

An emblematic case of joint mobilisation Introduction The murder of Berta Cáceres, Lenca indigenous leader and defender of land and the (…)

To boost EU competitiveness through regulatory simplification, the European Commission adopted the Omnibus I package, amending key sustainability directives. While framed as a move to reduce burdens, ...

RUS 001 / 0226 / OBS 008.1 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment Russia 18 February 2026 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights (…)

En Russie, une défenseure de l'environnement et figure emblématique du peuple autochtone Selkup est accusée de terrorisme. Rentrée de la COP30 au Brésil, Daria Egereva a été arrêtée chez elle en décem...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is an NGO that brings together nearly 200 civil society organisations around the world. (…)

States and non-State actors taking part in the negotiations of an international legally binding instrument to protect human rights from corporate (…)

A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that the state must set binding greenhouse gas emissions targets to reach net zero by 2050 to protect the Dutch-Caribbean island of Bonaire, a decision hailed by clima...

New information UGA 006 / 0126 / OBS 065.1 Judicial harassment / Arbitrary detention Uganda 26 January 2026 The Observatory for the Protection (…)

Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

In late October, several new resolutions were adopted by members of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) during its 42nd Congress (…)

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The European Parliament confirmed today the rollback of key sustainability laws as it approved the final text of the Omnibus I package, a (…)