The world’s top court has said a healthy environment is a human right, and governments could be violating international law ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion recognising a clean and ...

David Boyd, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, hailed the ruling as one of the strongest court decisions ever made in an environmental case and said the judgment is a ...

Last month, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the Peruvian government responsible for violating the right to a healthy environment, among other rights, of residents of La Oroya, a ...

July 2025, Quezon City.  As affected families and communities rise from the onslaught of recent severe weather disturbances, civil society groups urged ...

The protocol aims to recognize the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. It stems from an initiative from an appeal in a November 2024 letter from UN special rapporteurs urging the ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) published its opinion on Thursday that all countries in the Americas have legal obligations under human rights law to confront the climate crisis. The ...

Since then, millions of people around the world have continued to experience the accelerating impacts of the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution, exacerbated by ...

A proposed change to California’s Constitution seeks to make clean air and water a right, along with a healthy environment. Here, wildfire smoke obscures the skyline of downtown Los Angeles in ...