Human Rights and the Environment: Meeting on Activities Related to 60th Session of the Human Rights Council

About this Session

Environmental issues are present in various agenda items of each session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) and their side events.

Toxics and human rights are the usual main environmental theme of the Council’s September sessions, with the Special Rapporteur’s annual report to the HRC. The human rights to water and sanitation, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, climate change and human rights, and the right to development are also environment-related issues presented by their respective United Nations Special Procedures in interactive dialogues with States, international organizations, human rights national institutions, and NGOs.

To develop more synergies among stakeholders and a better outreach on the environmental agenda of HRC60, including the activities taking place in parallel to the Council’s session, the Geneva Environment Network, the Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group (known as GeCCco), and its partners convened an information-sharing session. This event discussed and shared information on planned environment-related activities at and around HRC60, such as in-person and online events, publications, or exhibitions, among others, and exchange on possible synergies. They feed the GEN page on HRC60 which provides an updated calendar of these environment-related events. → Share information on your activity!

Speakers

By order of intervention. 

Ira GIBSON

Program Officer for Climate, Business and Human Rights, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Geneva Office

Benjamin SCHACHTER

Coordinator, Environment and Climate Change Team, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Nuriya JEPPSSON CAMPANA

Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights)

Daniela CHAVEZ MENDOZA

Consultant, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation)

Jan Harvey PARAFINA

Research and Communications Consultant, Geneva Environment Network

Diana RIZZOLIO

Coordinator, Geneva Environment Network | Moderator

Highlights

Video

Live from International Environment House

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Information shared will be placed in our update “Environment @ 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council”.

Links

• Environment @ 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
• Human Rights and the Environment
• Human Rights, Hazardous Substances, and the Role of Geneva
• Human Rights, Climate Change, and the Role of Geneva
• Indigenous Peoples and the Role of Geneva