Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

OP-ED. With the 29th Climate Change Conference beginning in Baku on November 11, a collective of academics and artists calls ...

Nitrous oxide (N₂O) is a greenhouse gas that is approximately 270 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the planet ...

The world’s inequalities are constantly growing : millions of people continue to suffer from forced evictions, inadequate access to education and basic health treatment and appalling working ...

2006). Genes and Environment in Human Behavior: Sociocultural Influences and Politics An understandable fear held by many humans is that their behavior is pre-determined by their genes.

Three fields are examined, namely human rights, international environmental law, and arms control and disarmament. These areas are in the forefront of the development of international law and deal ...

Human rights and environmental protection are closely intertwined, and both are critically dependent on supportive legal opportunity structures. These legal structures consist of access to the courts; ...

States are called upon to promote the participation of environmental and climate defenders at all COPs and to ensure their protection. Nearly 200 of them were assassinated worldwide in 2023. The ...