#healthyenvironment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #healthyenvironment, aggregated by home.social.
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Human Rights Watch calls for strengthening human rights, including promoting economic justice and protecting the right to a healthy environment in the “Pact for the Future” which is expected to be adopted at the Summit of the Future, a special UN meeting slated for September 2024.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/07/un-revise-pact-future-focus-rights
@humanrightswatch #HumanRIghts #EconomicJustice #HealthyEnvironment #PactForTheFuture #SummitOfTheFuture
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#BillS5 was to #modernize #Canadian #EnvironmentalProtectionAct - the right of all people in #Canada to a #HealthyEnvironment is now recognized in law. Although ultimate goal was to have this right enshrined in the #CanadianCharterOfRightsAndFreedoms - getting it into this #law is a great start.
The Environmental Protection Act hadn’t been #updated since 1999.
https://rabble.ca/environment/activism-secures-new-environmental-protections
#environmental #HumanRights #Ecojustice #ActivismWorks #LongBattles #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice