@ciel.orgThank you to everyone who engaged with us throughout #HRC63, States, UN experts, civil society, environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples, colleagues, and partners.
The work continues to protect the right to advance environmental & climate justice. 🌍✊
@ciel.orgTaken together, #HRC63 showed how deeply environmental protection is embedded across the human rights agenda:
🌍The right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll
🛡️Environmental defenders
🌊Sea-level rise
💰Climate finance
☣️Toxics & pollution
🤖AI
📢Participation & access to information.
@ciel.orgWe also brought attention to another growing threat: disinformation. Our #HRC63 side event explored how disinformation can undermine human rights and environmental action.
Read the report back: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/corpo...
@ciel.org#HRC63 renewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Toxics but would only invite her to report to the UN General Assembly every 2 years, rather than yearly. This has already happened to other Special Procedures & we regret that this will result in less interaction with NY-based processes.
@ciel.org#HRC63 marked 60 years of the International Covenants on:
🇺🇳Civil & Political Rights, &
🇺🇳Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.
We joined a panel discussion on the Covenants to highlight how these treaties have contributed and can continue to contribute to environmental protection.
@ciel.orgWe were proud to co-organize a #HRC63 event marking the 5-year anniversary of the recognition of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll.
We celebrated progress, reflected on lessons learned, and looked ahead to the next five years of implementation.
www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/a-cel...
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@austriaungeneva.bsky.social#HRC63 has concluded. As part of #TeamEurope 🇪🇺, Austria 🇦🇹 actively engaged with regional partners and civil society to advance #HumanRights worldwide, focusing on AI and digital technologies, anti-personnel mines, and Afghanistan.
@southcentre.bsky.socialLooking Ahead: Welcoming the panel on "Placing human rights at the centre of artificial intelligence: artificial intelligence capacity-building and bridging the artificial intelligence divide".
The South Centre stands ready to engage on this issue.
@globalr2p.orgIn this week's issue of #AtrocityAlert:
🇪🇹 Civilian casualties escalate as fighting in #Ethiopia fuels regional tensions
🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Nearly one year after the ceasefire, #Israel’s atrocities in #Gaza persist
🇺🇳 Outcomes of #HRC63
Full issue: bit.ly/4y8KEMH
@genevaenvironmentnetwork.orgFrom climate finance, water & sanitation in times of conflict, nuclear legacy, the #RightToSeeds to @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #COP17Armenia, the GEN has co-organized & supported #HRC63 events related to environment.
Thank you for following our coverage! ▶️ tiny.cc/HRC63Environ...
@genevaenvironmentnetwork.orgAt #HRC63, celebrations took place ahead of 5th anniversary of the recognition of the right to #HealthyEnvironment by the HRC.
UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes was present in events that addressed women EHRDs & conflict, cultural heritage & #SeaLevelRise.
@genevaenvironmentnetwork.orgUN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights Bethanie Carney-Almroth had her first interactive dialogue with the Council & addressed topics at #HRC63, including:
🔸 #RightToScience
🔸 #PFAS
🔸 corporate accountability
🔸 toxics & waste
🔸 water & sanitation
@genevaenvironmentnetwork.org#HRC63 saw the adoption of the resolutions on the SR toxics and human rights mandate, and on the rights to water & sanitation.
Others addressing the envt., though not the main focus, include the rights of #IndigenousPeoples & on rights of peasants.
@genevaenvironmentnetwork.orgThe 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council has concluded in #GENeva!
With the #environment high on the agenda, consult the outcomes and resolutions taken at #HRC63 ▶️ tiny.cc/HRC63Environ...
@philippedam.bsky.socialGreat news from #HRC63: Mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on #Russia renewed, with stronger support & presented by @euatun.bsky.social as a block ( #Hungary is back!).
Rapporteur's mandate exposes to the world massive repression Kremlin would like to hide.
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@sostorturebdi.bsky.social#Burundi : l'ONU garde les yeux ouverts ! 🇧🇮
SOS-Torture/Burundi salue le renouvellement du mandat du Rapporteur spécial (22 pour, 7 contre, 17 abstentions).
La résolution condamne les attaques contre #avocats, #défenseurs, #journalistes et société civile.
Vigilance totale d'ici 2027.
@icjurists.bsky.socialAt #HRC63, the ICJ and partners urged #Cambodia to release all arbitrarily detained defenders and halt impunity for extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and forcible renditions, and asked how to curtail transnational repression. www.icj.org/hrc63-icj-an...