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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New briefing calls for urgent reform to Scotland’s legal aid system
A new briefing, jointly authored by ERCS, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland and JustRight Scotland, calls for urgent reform to improve Scotland's civil legal aid system and increase access to justice ...
New scrutiny exposes Scotland’s failings ahead of UN environmental justice deadline – press release
Time is running out for the Scottish Government to meet a UN environmental justice deadline according to a new scrutiny by ERCS, which brings to light a series of failings ...
Lunchtime 101: Scottish Environment Court
How could a dedicated Scottish Environment Court help us hold public bodies and polluters to account for environmental damage? Watch our webinar ...
New report details what’s needed for a Scottish ecocide law – press release
A new report commissioned by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) considers how the unprecedented support for criminalising ecocide can translate into a ‘workable domestic offence’ in Scotland ...
