Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment
A healthy environment is fundamental to ensuring thriving national, regional and global communities. This thematic report explores the way that international, regional, and national legal instruments have established a framework for the right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asian countries.
Background Brief: Key International Standards and Guidelines Relating to Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change
Communities in the Asia Pacific Region have experienced significant displacement over recent years due to disasters and climate change. Since 2017 RWI has conducted a 10-country, thematic study on internal displacement in the context of climate change and disasters in Asia and the Pacific.
Climate change, disasters and internal displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A human rights-based approachfic
Communities in the Asia Pacific Region have experienced significant displacement over recent years due to disasters and climate change. This excerpt adresses the role of national law and policy in addressing displacement in the context of disasters and climate change in Asia and the Pacific
National law and policy reports on displacement in the context of disasters and climate change in Asia and the Pacific
Communities in the Asia Pacific Region have experienced significant displacement over recent years due to disasters and climate change. Since 2017 RWI has conducted a 10-country, thematic study on internal displacement in the context of climate change and disasters in Asia and the Pacific. The result is a series of reports addressing how national law and policy relating to climate change adaptation and disaster risk management addresses the phenomenon.
The Integration of Human Rights in the Nationally Determined Contributions in Asia-Pacific to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
The study is intended to provide a baseline for future regional policy development and standard setting related to human rights protection within the framework of environment and climate change. The central question addressed is to what extent states in the Asia Pacific region have included references to human rights (both direct and indirect) in their NDCs/INDCs submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat. By surveying the inclusion of human rights references in NDCs/INDCs, this study hopes to identify concrete opportunities for follow up actions.
Discussion brief: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia: National human rights institutions
This discussion brief synthesises and tailors the findings and recommendations from RWI’s thematic study entitled ‘Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia (2020)’ and provides recommendations for national human rights institutions (NHRIs) to advance the right to a healthy environment. Examples of human rights complaints and cases taken up by various NHRIs in Asia relating to environmental and climate change issues are featured.
Pandemic Preparedness and Response National Covid-19 Law and Policy in Human Rights Perspective
This report presents key, human rights-based, insights from a pilot study examining national legal and policy responses to COVID-19. The study was carried out by RWI researchers in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report identifies areas of concern, as well as promising practices from the 14 countries, and also sketches a forward-looking rights-based pandemic preparedness and response agenda linked to the post-2015 international frameworks.
Nordic Norms, Natural Disasters, and International Protection
In international law, new norms can emerge through the identification and development of effective practices. This article examines Swedish, Finnish and, less closely, other Nordic countries’ contributions to the slow process of norm emergence in relation to cross-border displacement in the context of disasters and climate change.