Description
Crimes that affect the environment are increasingly recognised as human rights concerns, with direct consequences for the enjoyment of the rights to life, health, food, water, culture and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Their impacts are often felt most acutely by Indigenous Peoples, local communities, environmental human rights defenders and others directly affected by environmental harm.
This side event will discuss how crimes that affect the environment can be addressed within the policy discourse of the Human Rights Council, anchored in the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. It will also highlight the importance of ensuring that ocean-related crimes and their adverse human rights impacts are not overlooked.
Panel
• Clément Voule, Human Rights Expert at the African Commission and the United Nations
• Sonia Peña Moreno, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Rob Parry-Jones, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
• Speakers from Member States (tbc)
• Felix Kirchmeier, Geneva Human Rights Hub (GHRH)
Organisers and Partners
This event is co-organised by the Geneva Human Rights Hub (GHRH) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It is organised in collaboration with: Earthjustice, UNCAC Coalition, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva Human Rights, Biodiversity and Land Task Force (GeHRBiL), Geneva Environment Network (GEN), Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) and Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC)
