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Human right to a healthy environment

Environmental and human rights groups urge UK government to back binding Council of Europe Protocol on the right to a healthy environment – press release
8 May 2025

Environmental and human rights groups urge UK government to back binding Council of Europe Protocol on the right to a healthy environment – press release

Over sixty organisations have written to UK government ministers ahead of a major meeting of the Council of Europe, urging them to back proposals for an additional …

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Dismay and concern after Scottish Government abandons flagship Human Rights Bill
5 September 2024

Dismay and concern after Scottish Government abandons flagship Human Rights Bill

The Programme for Government announced yesterday signals the Scottish Government’s abject failure to deliver on their promise of a Scottish Human Rights Bill including the right to a healthy environment ...

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2 August 2024

Lunchtime 101: Why Scotland needs a legal right to a healthy environment

What is the right to a healthy environment and what would legal environmental rights mean for Scotland? Watch our free lunchtime webinar ...

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18 July 2024

Former UN Special Rapporteur explains in 90 seconds why Scotland needs the right to a healthy environment

During the last six years as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Professor David R. Boyd has supported countless people across the world to implement and use their right to a healthy environment – watch his message to Scotland ...

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Civil society groups call on First Minister to ‘show leadership’ by enshrining a legal right to a healthy environment – press release
17 July 2024

Civil society groups call on First Minister to ‘show leadership’ by enshrining a legal right to a healthy environment – press release

Over sixty environmental, human rights, and health organisations have written an open letter to Scotland’s First Minister, urging him to push ahead with plans for an enforceable right to a heathy environment in the next Programme for Government ...

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16 July 2024

Reflecting on the Rights Detectives investigation into a right to a healthy environment for children and young people

Juliet Harris, Director of Together Scotland, reflects on how the right to a healthy environment can strengthen children’s rights across the First Ministers priority areas for action ...

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16 July 2024

The Rights Detectives: Investigating the Right to a Healthy Environment

What do children and young people in Scotland think about their right to a healthy environment? Teenagers Safiya and Oscar spoke to over 200 children to investigate this on a special mission from the Scottish Government ...

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11 December 2023

Petition handed in to Scottish Government for Human Rights Day

Today we submitted the final copy of our petition calling for an enforceable right to a healthy environment ...

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