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

Publication Date
May 2025
Type
  • Press releases
Topic
  • Right to a healthy environment
Synopsis

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 binding Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that would finally recognise the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

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