Human rights and the rights of nature are linchpins for truly sustainable development

Human rights and the rights of nature are the two missing links in the international community’s efforts aimed at achieving ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSNOpinion

Proposing a 'four-principle' approach to value-based diplomacy

The political sphere has split over President Lee Jae Myung’s social media post criticizing Israel on X. The ruling party ...
Mongabay

How conservation NGOs can put human rights principles into practice (commentary)

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption of international human rights ...
Mongabay

The cost of conservation without consent: Astrid Puentes on rights-based environmentalism

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...
Jurist

HRW urges rights-based approach for newly appointed Sahel envoy

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged a rights-based approach in a letter on Friday to the newly appointed African Union (AU) Special Envoy for the Sahel, Burundi President H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye. HRW ...
The Conversation

Canadians support accepting more newcomers but we need a more equitable, rights‑based approach

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Global Trends Report recently announced that as of the end of 2021, 89.3 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced. While Ukraine’s ...