Environment
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Defending Environmental Human Rights Defenders: Legal Frameworks
Tags Share Amid the escalating climate emergency and widespread environmental degradation, now widely recognized as urgent human rights concerns by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Court of Justice, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the work of environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) has never been more vital. Environmental…
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Guapinol: A 2 años de las medidas cautelares de la CIDH, el Estado de Honduras sigue sin garantizar la protección de las personas defensoras
Tags Share A 2 años de que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) otorgara la Medida Cautelar No. 137-23 a favor de integrantes del Comité Municipal para la Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos de Tocoa y el Bufete Justicia para los Pueblos en Honduras, el Estado de Honduras no ha cumplido con…
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Guapinol: Two years after the IACHR precautionary measures, the State of Honduras continues to fail to guarantee the protection of human rights defenders
Tags Share Two years after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted Precautionary Measure No. 137-23 on behalf of members of the Comité Municipal para la Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos de Tocoa (Municipal Committee for the Defense of the Common and Public Goods of Tocoa) and the Bufete Justicia para los…
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JustFilms Presents: Water for Life Screening and Discussion
Share About the Event JustFilms presents a special screening of the award-winning documentary Water For Life, followed by the compelling panel discussion “Defending the Defenders” with guests including Kerry Kennedy, president of RFK Human Rights, Goldman Prize laureates Francisco Pineda and Marcel Gomes, filmmaker Will Parrinello, moderated by Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global…
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Brazil’s Marco Temporal: Indigenous Land Rights at a Crossroads
Tags Share Brazil is in the midst of a high-stakes battle over Indigenous land rights, centered on the controversial concept of the Marco Temporal, or “time frame” thesis. This legal theory would limit Indigenous territorial claims to lands physically occupied – or under legal dispute – on October 5, 1988, the date Brazil’s current Constitution…
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No Zero-Sum Game: AI’s Risks, Roles and Opportunities in a Just Climate Transition
Tags Share Last Wednesday, President Trump unveiled a broad “AI Action Plan” that supplies the administration’s regulatory intent, or lack thereof, around AI development, deployment, and its supporting infrastructure. While some of the plan’s ambitions and recommendations hold merit, the plan raises critical concerns regarding climate and environmental impacts that cannot be overlooked. A key…
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Climate Change is a Driving Force of Child Labor
Tags Share In 2024, climate disasters surged with devastating force. In Asia, heatwaves scorched India and Pakistan, with temperatures reaching 122°F, forcing schools to close. Catastrophic floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul displaced over 500,000 people, while East Africa faced its worst flooding in decades, with Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia seeing thousands uprooted. In…
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US police use lethal, military-grade force against Black people and civic space activists: report to UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
Police use of lethal force in the United States is on the rise, with more police killings reported in 2024 than any other year on record. This gruesome milestone was reached due to increased access to military-grade weaponry, aggressive suppression of civic space, and the continuation of a historical pattern of violence against Black people.
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One Student’s Fight for Florida’s Future Coastline
Tags Share Florida’s gulf coast is home to many natural wonders: diverse estuaries, lush mangrove forests, expansive beaches, and so much more. Having grown up surrounded by wetland ecosystems in St. Petersburg, Ava Thompson chose to dedicate her studies to preserving her home state’s ecology. Now a junior at Florida State University, Thompson is studying…
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Climate Change Is A Growing Threat To Education
Tags Share From book bans to the potential shuttering of the Department of Education, what happens in schools has become a particularly hot-button political issue, prompting contention between political factions at the local and federal levels. Measures taken to resist interference from Washington have been varied, with some teachers quietly defying the bans while others…
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El Parlamento Xinka Exige al Estado de Guatemala Restituir los Derechos Territoriales Indígenas tras Años de Resistencia contra la Mina Ilegal El Escobal
Tags Share El Parlamento del Pueblo Xinka de Guatemala a la Opinión Pública hace saber: Después de más de quince años de resistencia pacífica, para defender nuestros derechos y de tener como respuesta del Estado la criminalización, estigmatización, invisibilización, encarcelamiento, secuestro, ataques y asesinatos de nuestras autoridades y líderes por la defensa de nuestros derechos, el Pueblo…
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The Xinka Parliament Calls on Guatemalan State to Restore Indigenous Land Rights After Years of Resistance Against the Illegal Escobal Mine
Tags Share The Parliament of the Xinka People of Guatemala informs the public: After more than fifteen years of peaceful resistance defending our rights–after the State has responded by criminalizing us, stigmatizing us, invisibilizing us, jailing us, kidnapping us, attacking us, and murdering our authorities and leaders for defending our rights–today we, the Xinka People, are raising our voices to…
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