Our Beaches, Our Sea: Heritage of Fishing Communities, Usufruct of All Citizens
This report highlights the cultural, social, and economic significance of coastal areas for fishing communities and emphasizes their rights to these spaces. It critiques the Vizhinjam International Seaport (VIS) for disregarding these rights, citing environmental and social threats such as severe coastal erosion, loss of livelihoods, and biodiversity depletion.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
This Report highlights the escalating violence against environmental human rights defenders, urges protective measures, and emphasizes the essential role of defenders in environmental sustainability and development.
Front Line Defenders: Global Analysis 2022
This report documents 401 killings of human rights defenders over the course of 2022 and across 26 countries. It highlights the critical struggles of those who fight for justice and human rights.
Time to protect environmental rights defenders!
Video by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples promotes effective practices, offers recommendations, and addresses human rights violations to ensure Indigenous voices are central in decision-making and their cultural heritage is protected.
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth International envisions a world where societies live sustainably and in harmony with nature, championing equity, human rights, and social justice.
UN’s Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) encourages the promotion and protection of human rights through state reporting, expert input, and informed recommendations.
Ocean defenders and human rights
In this paper, we advocate for the recognition, support and protection of those individuals, groups or communities who are mobilizing, advocating or taking action to protect the marine environment, coastal and oceanic territories, and associated human rights from existential threats.
