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Constructive meeting with Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #AarhusConvention. #Environmentaldefenders must be provided with a safe and enabling environment to carry out their vital work on promoting and protecting human rights relating to the environment.
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It is reported in the UK press that the UK Prime Minister has sought legal advice on leaving the Aarhus Convention. That Convention is part of the EU legal order.
The EU/UK Withdrawal Agreement prohibits the UK from removing any rights from citizens of Northern Ireland that existed prior to Brexit.
#Aarhus #AarhusConvention #Starmer #Environment #Ireland #GFA #Brexit
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RT by @EU_ENV: Hands up if you care about having
🖐️ access to information on the #environment
🖐️ your say to protect & shape it
🖐️ access to #justice
The🇺🇳#AarhusConvention puts all this into practice. Parties are legally bound to uphold these #humanrights & protect #EnvironmentalDefenders
[2024-07-04 12:58 UTC]
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Reasons to support environmental defenders and citizens’ assemblies
Democracies depend on citizen engagement“States must address the root causes of mobilisation” not the mobilisation itself. Indeed, tackling protesters and not oil producers is the democratic equivalent of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic."
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https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-to-support-environmental-defenders-227742The repression and criminalisation of environmental protests
State repression of environmental protest and civil disobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy. Position Paper by Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention, 2024
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdfPublic Participation
The Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs empower people with the rights to access information, participate in decision-making in environmental matters and to seek justice. They are the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy.
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https://unece.org/environmental-policy-1/public-participationRe-imagining the Making of Climate Law and Policy in Citizens’ Assemblies
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnational-environmental-law/article/reimagining-the-making-of-climate-law-and-policy-in-citizens-assemblies/A591CF2EBFF3E60CF2BC4FE3655503E3
#activism #protests #HumanRights #PublicParticipation #democracy #governance #ethics #ClimateBreakdown #BiodiversityCrisis #Nature #AarhusConvention #rights #climate #CitizensAssemblies #CivilDisobedience