PhD student Valentina works in the FORMAS-funded project Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation. She hopes her research can contribute to an understanding and visibilization of the transformative role that Environmental Human Rights Defenders can play within multiple crises, focusing not only on their experie

Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Women’s Link Worldwide and Front Line Defenders welcome today’s court decision acquitting human rights defender Vanessa Mendoza Cortés, President of the women’s rights organisation Stop Violence (Stop Violències), of a ‘crime against the prestige of the institutions’.

During an inauguration ceremony, city leaders announced implementation plans for Guadalajara’s first low emissions zone, around the historic city centre’s busy Ramón Corona intersection, in what is being considered the country’s first such effort to clean the air, improve road safety and reduce emissions by regulating the access of polluting vehicles in a specific zone.

Organized by EarthRights International and UNEP Supported by ELAW. hursday, January 25, 2024, from 3.00 PM to 04.30 PM (Bangkok time).