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environment

Global Witness Annual Report on Land and Environmental Defenders: attacks are on the rise

Panoramic view of Lake Charvak, a huge artificial reservoir created by erecting a stone dam on the Chirchiq River - Uzbekistan
© Vladimir V. Burov
environment

Selected Problems of Implementation of the Espoo Convention: On the Example of the Republic of Uzbekistan

View of the melting Collins Glacier in Antarctica, showing the effects of climate change.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
climate change

The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage: the Economical-Political Blockade and Future Prospects for Reparations against Climate Change Impacts

A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
human rights

Bachelet to the Human Rights Council on climate emergency: “The world has never seen a threat to human rights of this scope”

A woman plants some seeds while taking part in a Sahelian plants grow testing and reforestation project in Malamawa village, Zinder Region, Niger on July 30
© FAO/Luis Tato
Land Rights

Land grabbing: what does it truly mean?

People at the marketplace of Lolachat in Uganda
Uganda

Think Globally, Act Locally: Building Rural Climate Resilience in Karamoja, Uganda

Sign in which is written "Water is a human rights".
© Anne Hoffman
water

Human Rights, Water and Development: what role for the United Nations?

African woman in the countryside with goats.
© Kenya © IOM 2011/Brandan Bannon
climate change

Towards a climate migration governance: the new challenge of the 21st century

environment

Photo Exhibition "VolunTour: Better Environment – Better Tomorrow", Centro di Ateneo per i Diritti Umani, 28 February - 16 March 2018

150 days in Nepal with the European Voluntary Service (EVS)
Polar ice viewed, which is melting, from aboard the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, "KV Svalbard", during Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the Polar ice rim to witness firsthand the impact of climate change on icebergs and glaciers.
© UN Photo
Italy

Italy ratifies a set of international environmental legal instruments

fairtrade coffee challenge 2016
human rights

The Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua, 13th may 2016: a Coffee for Human Rights

The official logo for UN constituted by the polar stereographic projection of the globe surrounded by two laurel branches
© UN Photo
United Nations

Federico Mayor and Roberto Savio: for a global threat, a global response is essential

In a clearing in the Myinbyin Forest Range, Central Burma, FAO expert J.L. Briggs (right), of Australia, supervises the work as a tractor winches up logs of teak wood and hauls them away to the dispatch point.
© UNPhoto
environment

The Italian Atlas on Environmental Conflicts is Out

Logo of the EIUC, with orange figures on the left and "EIUC" written in blue on the left.
© EIUC
human rights

EIUC: Training Seminar on Human Rights and the Environment: Synergies and Challenges

Afghan families and tourists enjoying the spectacular scenery in Band-E-Amir, Afghanistan's first National Park.
© UN Photo
human rights

EIUC: Training Seminar on “Human Rights and Environment”, Venice, 21-23 November 2013