[image: Alberto Curamil, indigenous leader in Chile is detained arbitrarily and on a bogus anonymous accusation] ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS UNDER ATTACK IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE Inter-American Commission…
originally posted at: https://ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25003&LangID=E GENEVA (17 September 2019) – UN human rights experts call for an end to society’s addiction to fossil fuels ahead of the…
September 16, 2019 – Bogota, Colombia Days after the Center for Human Rights and Environment and Earthworks revealed extensive fugitive and venting emissions at numerous…
by Barry Saxifrage (originally published in Canada’s National Observer) Despite decades of promises to prevent a climate crisis, the primary cause of it — global fossil…
The Montreal Protocol—the only treaty with universal membership of all UN countries—is continuing to heal the protective stratospheric ozone layer and also protecting the climate,…
The Center for Human Rights and Environment presented findings from recent work in partnership with Earthworks and Clean Air Task Force, on video registration and…
The Center for Human Rights and Environment along with Earthworks, presented an Amicus Brief today to the Permanent People’s Forum, session on the Human Rights…
World Health Organization Confirms 90% of People at Risk from Air Pollution 7 million premature deaths per year linked to air pollution Geneva, Switzerland, 2…
The Policy Advisory Network for Latin America for the Promotion of Clean Brick Production (PAN LAC), coordinated by CHRE visited the locality of San Matias,…
Opinion by Romina Picolotti (CHRE Board Member and Founder – Argentina’s Environment Secretary 2006-2008) [this opinion piece appeared originally in Spanish in La Voz del…