as more than 50 governments meet this week for the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, many rights issues are absent from the agenda.

The world’s highest court has spoken: tackling climate change is not a choice: it’s a legal obligation. Now it’s up to the United Nations General Assembly to speak up and urge its 193 member countries...

The Trump administration this week announced its intention to withdraw the United States from over 60 international organizations, conventions, and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergover...

The Trump administration this week announced its intention to withdraw the United States from over 60 international organizations, conventions, and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Con...

Bulgaria’s delayed decommissioning of coal-fired power plants contributes to dangerous air pollution, risks breaching new air quality standards, and is slowing down the country’s transition away from ...

The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference, COP30, will bring together states that are party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as thousands of experts, journalists...

The 72-page report, “‘Waiting for God’: Flood Displacement and Planned Relocation of Fisherfolk in Saint-Louis, Senegal,” concerns families who lost everything when coastal floods hit their historic f...

European Union member states led by France and Germany are walking back on their commitment to protect human rights and the environment in global supply chains.

Legislators in Brazil are currently deliberating the General Environmental Licensing Law (LGLA), a new bill which dismantles environmental licensing requirements and, if approved, could accelerate oil...

Key developments around the world, however, offer a reminder that the global fight for environmental human rights is waged in frontline communities as well as in legislative halls.

Today, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) President-designate, and Executive Director Ana Toni, outlining priorities ...

Earth Day, which in 2016 marked the opening for signature of the Paris Agreement on climate change, now takes place amid record-breaking global heat and rising fossil fuel production.

On April 2, US President Donald Trump announced import tariffs – many above 40 percent, on goods from virtually every country – upending the global economy. Although now paused above a baseline 10 percent, except for China, these new tariffs illustrate the danger of pursuing economic reforms without regard for the impact on people’s human rights.

Lenders are backing the African EACOP oil pipeline project, while publicly talking their support for a just energy transition

The WHO has identified air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health globally. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air pollutio...

The WHO has identified air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health globally. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air pollutio...

The WHO has identified air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health globally. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air pollutio...

Le gouvernement devrait soutenir la réinstallation des villageois de Walande, et les protéger contre les impacts du changement climatique.

The 66-page report, “‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands,” documents why Walande community members made the dif...

At a meeting last week in Panama City with Human Rights Watch, government officials from Panama’s Ministry of Environment said they are drafting a climate adaptation decree, expected to be adopted by ...

Le gouvernement français entrave la mise en œuvre d'une législation historique sur la responsabilité des entreprises dans l'Union européenne, malgré les preuves persistantes des liens entre de grandes...

United States President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday the US’ withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the landmark international treaty aiming to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 d...

United States President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday the US’ withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the landmark international treaty aiming to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 d...

The Guna Indigenous community of Ukupa in Panama has announced a plan for the relocation of their entire village out of harm’s way after December flooding rendered homes in the area uninhabitable.

Special rapporteur Elisa Morgera criticizes ‘ineffective’ status quo and says focus must be on ‘deep, systemic inequalities’

Amid growing concerns about its existing air pollution problem, Turkish authorities have approved the expansion of one of Türkiye’s biggest coal power plants. The decision to greenlight two additional...