What can ECCHR, what can human rights contribute in the fight against the climate crisis? Human rights and environmental protection are interconnected. Only a healthy environment can guarantee the enforcement of human rights such as the right to life or social rights. Thus, we must think human rights not only as individual but as collective rights. These rights must be asserted against those responsible for the crisis. And often it is exactly those economic practices and legal frameworks violating human rights that are also responsible for the climate crisis: exploitation of raw materials, dam projects, fast fashion or agribusiness.
Cluster
Human rights & climate justice
Cases (2)
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Mexico – Wind parks – EDF
Wind park in Mexico: French firm disregards indigenous rights
Big energy companies disrespect human rights and environmental protection time and again – as in the case of Électricité de France in Oaxaca, Mexico. The problem: wind power stations are planned on the territory of the indigenous Unión Hidalgo community. EDF is trying to secure a construction authorization from the Mexican state – but until now, the indigenous group was not effectively consulted.
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Indonesia – Pesticides – Syngenta I
Syngenta pesticides endanger farmers and plantation workers
Research by ECCHR showed: Syngenta’s pesticide Gramoxone – which is banned in many countries including throughout the EU – is used on plantations in Indonesia and the Philippines with almost no protective measures.
