In this webpage, you can find publications authored and co-authored by RWI researchers and practitioners

Mind the Compliance Gap: How Insights from International Human Rights Mechanisms Can Help to Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity

Why the “Global South” matters in young people’s right to a healthy environment | OpenGlobalRights (English)

Por qué el “Sur Global” es importante en el derecho de los jóvenes a un ambiente sano | OpenGlobalRights (Spanish)

Why children’s empowerment helps human rights and biodiversity based solutions

A Spotlight on the Right to a Healthy Environment in Southeast Asia

Why Empowering National Human Rights Institutions Helps on the Quest for Healthy Earth?

Discussion Brief Series On The Right to a Healthy Environment In Southeast Asia | The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (rwi.or.id)

  1. Discussion Brief 1. NHRIs
  2. Discussion Brief 2. National Courts
  3. Discussion Brief 3. Policymakers
  4. Discussion Brief 4. Corporate Sector

Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia

COVID-19: Biodiversity and Climate Crises Need Human Rights Solutions

COVID-19 and Human Rights

Why Rights and Biodiversity Are Interdependent

English

Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today

Mandarin

环境法中的妇女权利:从1972年到今天

A Regional Agreement for Healthy Eco-Systems in Latin America & the Caribbean

Available in multiple languages.

English: 

Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia

Burmese

Burmese Version - Chapter 1.pdf

Burmese Version - Chapter 7.pdf

Burmese Version - Executive Summary.pdf

Thai

Thai Report Chapter 1.pdf

Thai Report Chapter 7.pdf

Thai Report Executive Summary.pdf

Vietnamese

VIetnamese - Chapter 1.pdf

VIetnamese - Chapter 7.pdf

VIetnamese - Executive summary.pdf

Laotian

Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene Report_LAOfinal.pdf

Chinese

Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene Report_ CHI.pdf

Khmer 

Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene Report Khmer.pdf

Get in touch

Claudia Ituarte-Lima

Claudia Ituarte-Lima

Leader of the Human Rights and the Environment Thematic Area

Cell phone: +1(778) 917-99942
E-mail: claudia.ituarte-lima@rwi.lu.se

Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima is Leader of the Human Rights and the Environment thematic area and senior researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

She is an international public lawyer and scholar with direct experience in international law and policy making. For the last 20 years, she has worked on human rights and environmental law (in particular biodiversity and climate change). She holds a PhD (University College London) and a MPhil (University of Cambridge).

Her work unites legal analysis and sustainability science for examining environmental and human rights governance challenges and innovative levers to address them. She has bridged the human rights and biodiversity “communities of practice” through leading research such in the Biodiversa project on safeguarding ecosystems and human rights through law and regulation. She has also experience designing multiactor dialogue processes and blended learning courses for judges, National Human Rights Institutions, environmental human rights defenders and United Nations staff. Her research expertise is complemented by her experiential learning by living in Sweden, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and Canada and the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon region.

Dr. Ituarte-Lima has analysed the interplay between laws at distinct geographical scales. Her research ranges from empirically-based case studies in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa, to legal analysis examining the interactions between international legal regimes in particular between the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and international human rights treaties. Her work has been published in English, Spanish, Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese.

She serves as regional deputy director for Latin America of the Global Network on Human Rights and Environment, acts as an expert advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment and was a member of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) expert group in policy support tools and methodologies.

Before working at RWI, she worked at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and she has held visiting status including at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at University of British Columbia in Canada, the Environmental Change Institute at University of Oxford in the UK, the Global Centre of Excellence Programme in Conflict Studies at Osaka University in Japan, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador and ECOSUR in Mexico.

For further updates on her research, please refer to her Research profile:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia-Ituarte-Lima

https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/claudia-ituarte-lima