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Global Summit photo 1
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - Weathering the storm: poverty, climate change and social protection

Global Summit photo 1
© Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
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Climate change: the ICJ and the Italian Cassation mark a shift in climate justice

The image represents two hands holding a little globe, indicating the importance of protecting our world and the environment.
environment

International Court of Justice: historic Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change

Natural waterfall
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2025: the 50th anniversary of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) and 60 years of UNESCO’s dedication to water sciences

UNESCO’s World Heritage
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cultural heritage

UNESCO’s 47th World Heritage Committee Session to Convene in Paris: Safeguarding Humanity’s Cultural and Natural Legacy, 6–16 July 2025, Paris, France

Elifcan Ozbek PhD graduation
university

PhD Programme "Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance": Dr. Elifcan Özbek succesfully defended her thesis on Integrated Sustainable Territorial Development, 19 May 2025

Global Summit photo 2
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Warning Silence: no update on Valentina Corona Case as Italy debates anti-climate protest measures

Beyond the screen. Cineforum on new technologies, human rights and climate change
cinema

Beyond the screen

Cineforum on human rights, new technologies, and climate change
Picture 6 - Cypripedium calceolus
© Diana Crestan
environment

The magic of the spring forest floor

A trash hill.
© cc licensed ( BY-SA ) photo by Alan Levine
sustainability

International Day of Zero Waste: for a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, 30th March 2025

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Human Rights and Climate Activism: The Case of Valentina Corona and the G7 Protest

Rana Temporaria o rana alpina è una specie molto comune in Europa. Durante la stagione riproduttiva partecipa, percorrendo anche grandi distanze, a migrazioni di massa verso i luoghi di riproduzione. Nella foto diversi esemplari in uno stagno di montagna immersi nelle loro uova.
© Diana Crestan
biodiversity

The importance of Wetlands

The extent of South Africa's reliance on coal is clear to see. In the province of Mpumalanga the landscape is scarred with huge coal-fired power stations and vast open-cast mines, the surface of the countryside literally having been scraped away. The coal-mining process here can leave water supplies unusable for irrigation, for industry and for consumption by animals and humans.
© UN Photo/Gill Fickling
climate justice

Climate Justice 1 - Leaving Fossil Fuels in the Ground

"Make Ecocide An International Crime Now" sign on the tarmac at a rally against climate change
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environment

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: Ecocide as international crime

Picture of a Wind Turbine taken while on an official visit to Nicaragua, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Parque Eólico Camilo Ortega Saavedra wind farm in the Department of Rivas in 2014.
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
climate change

COP29: The UN Climate Conference ends with an agreement of a $1.3 trillion Climate Financing Goal by 2035