CIEL recognizes the growing connection between threats to the global environment and basic human rights. In 1998, we established the Human Rights and Environment (HRE) Program in order to identify and develop connections between international environmental law and human rights law, to integrate the theoretical and advocacy approaches of the two movements, and to promote a more just, equitable and sustainable approach to development and natural resource management. Our activities include providing legal and technical support to indigenous and other local communities, and carrying out collaborative research and skill-sharing to promote and strengthen the development of legal tools to protect both human rights and the environment.

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

• March 2009: The Friedrich Erbert Foundation and the Center for International Environmental Law cordially invite you to to a panel discussion and launch of the new publication Practical Approaches to Integrating Human Rights and Climate Change Law and Policy

• January 2008: Call for Protection for Indigenous Peoples in Isolation in the Peruvian Amazon (Llamado Para La Protección De Los Pueblos Indígenas En Aislamiento En La Amazonia Peruana)

• Publication of: Derechos Humanos y Ambiente: Desafios para el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (November 2007; Jornadas de Derecho Internaional)
  

For more information, please contact Marcos Orellana.

This page last modified on 5 March 2009.