Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive ...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement. Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification, severe storms and related ...

Over the past dozen years, hundreds of alleged human rights abuses have been committed by over 90 corporations mining minerals critical to the production of clean energy, a U.K.-based human rights ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming report to the United Nations General Assembly in its eightieth session. This ...

These events underscore an uncomfortable truth: safeguarding human rights is not the sole responsibility of the government.

On Human Rights Defenders Day, Mongabay revisits The Clearing, a documentary about Cambodian environmental activists jailed ...

In its current form, the ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights lacks the necessary forward-thinking provisions for effective environmental and social safeguards. This needs to change as the people ...

Fyffes today announced the publication of its 2024 Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Report, coinciding with World ...

United Nations Human Rights Prize 2023 awarded to the Global Coalition for universal recognition of the right to a healthy environment. Awarded once every five years to five recipients, this is the ...

The Brazilian government should submit the Escazu Agreement to the National Congress and rally legislators to approve it, more than 140 Brazilian and international organizations said today in an open ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The European Parliament's legal committee adopted a report on Wednesday calling on the European Union to legally require companies to protect human rights and the ...