Advocacy for Environmental Human Rights Defenders

UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Learn how to use strategically international and regional frameworks when defending the right to a healthy environment, including Indigenous People's rights.

Defending the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: a human rights framework

Introduction

Understand what is the course and how to use the section

What comes with environmental rights?

Discover what we can related to rights related to our environment

What is the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment?

Understand the subtantive and procedural elements

Who are environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs)?

Understand the diversity of people defending the enviroment and our planet

What are the specific risks that EHRDs are facing?

Think about th perpetrators and your personal safety

Intersectionality - Why does your identity matter in environmental advocacy?

Discuss an important concept when defending the environment

What are the global frameworks that protect and recognise the work of EHRDs?

Skim landmark Declaration, resolution and documents, essential for your advocacy

A focus on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Peasants' Rights, and Rural Areas

Study those specific Declarations

Quiz! Defending the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: a framework

Test your knowledge!

What are the frameworks that promote corporate accountability?

Focus on the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and others

Advocating at the international level - UN human rights mechanisms

Introduction and how to use this section

Get tips on how to organise your learning

Opportunities for international and regional engagements

Understand quickly how you can engage

Managing expectations

Stenghts & limitations of the international system for EHRDs

Drafting an advocacy plan for your engagement

Craft a sustainable plan asking you the risght questions

Timely engagement with the Human Rights Council & UPR

Learn the environmental dimensioon of the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms

Collaborating with expert mechanisms - the Special Procedures

Understand which Rapporteurs or Working Groups are useful for your advocacy

Engaging with the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)

Know how EMRIP supports defenders and the implementation of the UN Declaration on Indigeneous People

Strategically using the Treaty Bodies

Map which human rights treaties are important for environmental advocacy

Treaty Bodies - A focus on CESCR and CERD

Includes the Early-Warning procedure

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Discover how country offices and thematic sections are useful to EHRDs

Key takeaways for your international engagement

Sumurise the key learning from this chapter

Quiz! Advocating at the international level - UN human rights mechanisms

Test your knowledge on chapter 2!

Advocating at the regional level

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