Campaign for the Right to a Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment at the Council of Europe #HealthyEnvironmentForAll Our letter: bit.ly/RtHE_CoE
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The call for a legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment is resonating across Europe! 🌍⚖️
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Following my visit to #Norway, I encourage authorities to further safeguard the dignity and #HumanRights of older people in care homes. Key priorities include timely access to appropriate care, adequate staffing, rights-compliant use of technology, stronger oversight, and culturally competent services, including for the Sámi people. On the environment, I encourage Norway to further strengthen its role in combatting climate change and better align its #ClimateAction with #HumanRights.
Read my statement👇[link in comments]
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So many calls to the @coe to advance the legal protection of the right to a healthy environment and a renewed ambition on climate -- all delivered at this week's session of the @PACE_News!
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A treaty that can bring ambitious action and accountability, all while continuing in the Council’s history of setting norms to fight new human rights challenges. We could not support this call more!
Learn more about the session: coe.int/en/web/portal/-/parl…
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Young advocates like our Campaign member @VanRobberechts and Emilie Tamo Kamguia from the COE Advisory Council on Youth made a compelling case on why climate action matters for young people and children’s rights and the survival of their communities.
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O’Flaherty’s call was not alone. Prince Albert II of Monaco urged countries to advance recognition of the right to a healthy environment, saying that “protecting nature means safeguarding the very conditions under which the rights we defend today can be exercised tomorrow”.
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Speaking at a dialogue with young people on the climate crisis, @CommissionerHR Michael O'Flaherty clearly called on states to “fill the global legal gap” by beginning to draft and promote a binding treaty on the right.
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We join the Commission in calling on all European States to move forward so that the Council of Europe can deliver on its mandate to protect the human rights of all in Europe!
➡️ cncdh.fr/actualite/declarati…
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It also clearly stresses how starting work on a binding treaty would allow the Council to align with recent legal developments like the United Nations’ recognition of the right and the International Court of Justice’s climate advisory opinion.
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In its latest opinion, the Commission welcomed the growing support and diplomatic efforts by several Member States over the past few months to finally secure this protection.
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We join the Commission in calling on all European States to move forward so that the Council of Europe can deliver on its mandate to protect the human rights of all in Europe!
➡️ cncdh.fr/actualite/declarati…
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It also clearly stresses how starting work on a binding treaty would allow the Council to align with recent legal developments like the United Nations’ recognition of the right and the International Court of Justice’s climate advisory opinion.
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For decades, the @court_rights has helped protect people from pollution, environmental degradation and climate harms. Yet, environmental protection under the Convention remains indirect and incomplete.
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It would also ensure that the European human rights framework and institutions are better equipped to address the impact of the planetary crisis on human rights.
Read the full piece: healthyenvironmenteurope.wor…
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A new treaty explicitly protecting the human right to a healthy environment would have many benefits for people across the continent -- starting with galvanising national policies and strengthening remedies.
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In our new blog, @arslansume (@CRINwire) and Małgorzata Kwiędacz-Palosz (@ClientEarth) argue that a binding @coe treaty on the right to a healthy environment would build on the Court's achievements and provide the legal foundation needed to meet today's environmental challenges.
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Environmental degradation can no longer be a distant concern for the @coe.
🚨 As this summer’s events prove, its consequences are being felt directly in everyday lives, undermining the rights of 700 million people living in the Council’s member states.
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Ministers can finally end a stalemate and start their work so that the law catches up with the biggest challenge of our time, protecting people and nature in the process.
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