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SREnvironment
@SREnvironment
UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment / Relatora Especial 🇺🇳 del DH al ambiente limpio, sano y sostenible
Mexico City, Mexico
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Jan 6, 2023
    Iran is burning mazut, one of the dirtiest fuels, to generate electricity. This produces massive volumes of toxic air pollution, which poisons millions of people in Iran, violating their human rights, including the right to a healthy environment. Iran must stop burning mazut!
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    SREnvironment
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    Oct 8, 2021
    A little bit of joyful emotion at the very staid Human Rights Council, as the UN for the first time recognizes the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment! (Mask was only off for a moment!)
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Jul 29, 2022
    Woke up this morning thinking "The world’s future is a little bit brighter today." Why? Because the UN General Assembly, in an historical development, recognized that everyone, everywhere, has a human right to live in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Oct 8, 2021
    ¡La ONU ha reconocido el derecho humano a un ambiente limpio, sano y sostenible! ¡¡Día histórico para los derechos humanos y el ambiente!! 43 a favor de la resolución 4 abstenciones ninguna en contra.
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Jan 5, 2023
    Replying to @mamadporii @UN and 7 others
    There is no doubt that Iran is systematically violating the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In my report to the Human Rights Council last year about "sacrifice zones," I highlighted air pollution in Ahvaz.
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Nov 13, 2021
    COP26 ignored human rights despite the UN Human Rights Council resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. An absolute travesty that will fuel anger, protests + litigation. A stark failure to address the suffering of climate crisis victims.
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Jun 29, 2022
    I just received an email from the European Court of Human Rights regarding the Portuguese youths' climate change case alleging human rights violations by 33 European nations. The case has been sent to the Grand Chamber. Europe's highest human rights court will now decide the case
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Apr 3, 2024
    Today the UN Human Rights Council changed my title to Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment Why does it matter? For humanity, it's another sign that this human right is globally recognized as fundamental. For me, a dream come true!
    My colleague Viktoria Aberg took this picture in the joyous aftermath of the UN Human Rights Council recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for the first time on Oct 8, 2021
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    SREnvironment
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    Feb 5, 2022
    Exciting news! On Friday, the Constitutional (Supreme) Court of Ecuador, the country’s most powerful court, recognized, for the first time, the right of Indigenous communities to have the final decision on oil, mining and other extractive projects affect their lands.
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    May 12, 2022
    Chile may become the first country in the world to enshrine the right to a healthy environment in its Constitution and the right to clean air: Art. 49 Todas las personas tienen el derecho al aire limpio durante todo el ciclo de vida, en la forma que determine la ley. Bravo Chile!
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Jul 28, 2022
    adopted 161 votes in favor, zero against, 8 abstentions VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Aug 5, 2022
    Sólo queda un mes para que el pueblo de Chile vote una nueva constitución. Se encuentra entre las constituciones más progresistas jamás escritas (he leido todas). Para los Chilenos que se preocupan por el medio ambiente, los derechos humanos y la justicia, votar sí es esencial.
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Oct 8, 2021
    Vote now! 40 in favour 4 abstentions none against. The UN has recognized the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment! Historic day for human rights and the environment!!!
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    SREnvironment
    @SREnvironment
    Sep 16, 2023
    Perhaps the time has come, as the global climate and human rights crisis worsens, to stop arresting people calling for action to solve the problem. Start arresting people who continue to blindly, negligently exacerbate the crisis. And end fossil fuel subsidies already!!
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    Jan van de Venis
    @JanvandeVenis
    Sep 16, 2023
    Police more violent against peaceful #StopFossilFuelSubsidies protestors. Day 8: Support from aside is now pushed, music instruments taken away. Water cannons used more (powerful). Yet, as 🇳🇱 subsidies exceed 40 bln, protestors sing ‘We’ll be back’. @SREnvironment please 👁️👁️
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