Tanzania: Maasai Forcibly Displaced for Game Reserve
Provide Redress; Adopt New Conservation Model After Consultations
Environment
As the world urbanizes and industrializes, and as effects of climate change intensify, environmental crises will increasingly devastate the lives, health, and livelihoods of people around the globe. A lack of legal regulation and enforcement of industrial and artisanal mining, large-scale dams, deforestation, domestic water and sanitation systems, and heavily polluting industries can lead to a host of human rights violations. Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment may face intimidation, legal harassment and deadly violence. The primary victims of environmental harm are often impoverished and marginalized communities with limited opportunity to meaningfully participate in decision-making and public debate on environmental issues, and have little access to independent courts to achieve accountability and redress.
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Ethiopia: Companies Long Ignored Gold Mine Pollution
Provide Effective Remedy to Oromia Residents who Suffered Harm
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Pakistan: Farmers Forcibly Evicted for Urban Project
Reform Colonial-Era Laws to Protect Land Rights, Environment
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Wildfire Smoke in North America Threatens Pregnancy Rights
Haze in Washington Should Move US Congress to Act
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Role of Fossil Fuels Absent at Plastics Treaty Negotiations
Governments Need to Prioritize Human Rights, Reduce Plastic Production
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COP28: Climate Talks Should Ensure Fossil Fuel Phaseout
In Bonn, Ahead of COP28, Confront UAE on Oil, Rights
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Gulf States: Migrant Workers at Serious Risk from Dangerous Heat
Existing Protections Woefully Inadequate in Warming Climate
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UAE Invites Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to COP28
Syrian Government Officials Should be Investigated for Crimes Against Humanity
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EU Approves Law for ‘Deforestation-Free’ Trade
Companies Required to Respect Environment, Human Rights in Supply Chains
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Plastics Treaty: Phase Out Fossil Fuels to End Pollution
Countries Should Commit to More Ambitious Actions at Second Negotiation
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