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📢 We stand for corporate accountability! Latest from the Business, Human Rights & Environment Desk of @FIDH_en #BizHumanRights
"The case before the #ICJ is part of a growing global movement turning to courts to hold polluters accountable, [including a lawsuit] by a Belgian farmer against TotalEnergies." FIDH proudly supports the #FarmerCase as part of its campaign #SeeYouInCourt! nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
Historic #ICJ opinion: States have binding human rights obligations to act on climate—and failing to do so is an “internationally wrongful act”! FIDH welcomes this legal milestone & major step for climate justice, inspired by the tireless Pacific youth 👇 fidh.org/en/issues/busi…
In a groundbreaking advisory opinion, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognised the right to a healthy climate as a component of the right to a healthy environment. It had already recognised the latter in 2017. Time for the Council of Europe to catch up!
Climate justice win! @IACourtHR elaborates legal obligations around a healthy climate as part of the right to a healthy environment. Meanwhile @coe still debates whether it should recognise it. Our answer? YES - we urge the Council to adopt a protocol to the European Convention!
Climate change is destroying entire ways of life & causing unprecedented human rights violations. In one week, an #ICJ advisory opinion could pave the way for climate reparations, accountability & long-overdue protections. Let's demand real, fair & enforceable climate action!
The Council of the EU's proposed changes to previously agreed laws like the #CSDDD would weaken corporate accountability for abuses to people & the planet. FIDH warns lawmakers about the serious impacts these amendments would have on sustainability norms: fidh.org/en/issues/busi…
Dans un avis consultatif historique, la @CIJ_ICJ a confirmé que les États ont l'obligation contraignante, en vertu du droit international des droits humains, d'agir contre le changement climatique, et que le non-respect de cette obligation peut constituer un « fait…
The #ClimateICJAO confirms that those who polluted must answer to those who paid the price. People cannot thrive in a polluted world. This is what #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ means. #AOLetsGO Like, share, and comment if you believe in righting the wrongs.
Two days until the @CIJ_ICJ delivers its climate ruling - a defining moment for global #ClimateJustice. What’s at stake? Our latest blog breaks it down: legal obligations, historic responsibility & more. Read here 👉 bit.ly/3UlX8Pz #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ #AOLetsGo
11 militants anti-EACOP ont été arrêtés en voulant déposer une lettre au siège de la banque KCB. Ils sont incarcérés depuis avril en attente d’un jugement. En Ouganda, initier ce type d’action peut exposer de lourdes conséquences, comme la FIDH documente: fr.mongabay.com/2025/07/en-oug…
🚨 FIDH condemns the #US government's @StateDept punitive sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied #Palestinian Territory, @FranceskAlbs. This is an attack on #internationallaw, the #UnitedNations, and on every victim who dares to pursue justice and accountability.
#Palestine is a mirror held up to the world’s moral & political failures. Ending this genocide requires not only outrage but rupture, reckoning & the courage to dismantle what enables it - urges UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs in her new report. ohchr.org/en/press-relea… #HRC59
New #BizHumanRights newsletter! 📩 shorturl.at/cwthO 🔹EU Council's Omnibus position 🔹Macron's visit to Vietnam 🔹Just Transition submissions to UN Special Rapporteurs 🔹Gwynne Skinner Award to @JusticaTrilhos Sign up for the next issue⬇️ shorturl.at/grX04
🇺🇬#Uganda: 11 environmental rights defenders known as #KCB11 remain arbitrarily detained in Luzira Prison since + than 50 days. 📣We urge the authorities to immediately release all of them & end the crackdown on #StopEACOP environmental defenders. 👉fidh.org/en/issues/huma…
🚨ACTION TODAY AT #SB62 🚨 ✊ Defending the Defenders: No Climate Justice Without #CivicSpace & #HumanRights ✊ 🕐 13:00 CEST | 📍Area 5, #SB62, Bonn Join us in honoring those silenced in the fight for #ClimateJustice.
La position adoptée lundi par Conseil de l'UE sur l’Omnibus I vide dramatiquement de son sens l’objet du devoir de vigilance européen : prévenir et réparer les atteintes des multinationales aux droits humains et à l’environnement. Réaction conjointe : fidh.org/fr/themes/entr…
Our #SB62 side event on Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders is starting in one hour in Bonn ⏰ Join us at the venue or follow us online for an important debate on protecting and empowering critical leaders in climate action! ➡️ lnkd.in/dy22TBFJ
Climate action & truly just transitions require the full protection, recognition & participation of Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders. 🗣️Join our side event TOMORROW at the #SB62 in Bonn to explore proposals to strengthen & amplify their voices in the lead-up to #COP30!
Climate action & truly just transitions require the full protection, recognition & participation of Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders. 🗣️Join our side event TOMORROW at the #SB62 in Bonn to explore proposals to strengthen & amplify their voices in the lead-up to #COP30!
🌍 What if the UN Climate Talks @UNFCCC truly worked - for everyone? #TheCOPWeNeed: ✅ Majority decisions ✅ Binding accountability ✅ Open, transparent, inclusive talks ✅ No more #CorporateCapture Today, we stand united. It is time to #FixTheUNFCCC. 🔗fidh.org/en/issues/busi…
Our campaign showed up in force at the #SB52 UN Climate Conference — joined by @SRclimatechange! European states must do their homework too & start negotiations as soon as possible at the @coe to legally protect the right to a healthy environment! Their credibility is at play.
Une vingtaine d’associations et syndicats, dont la FIDH, dénoncent la vague de dérégulation environnementale et sociale en cours en Europe via la directive Omnibus I. Elles exigent que la voix de la société civile et l’avis des Français·es soient entendus. fidh.org/fr/themes/entr…
