This past January, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, a body of independent experts mandated to oversee compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which has 170+ parties, including Canada, issued this 16-page ruling on human rights obligations to climate migrants. Professor Jane McAdam, director of the Read more…
On February 1, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted, “PBI accompanies Fray Juan de Larios, A.C. and the groups of relatives of disappeared persons in the Plenary hearing with the Governor of the State of Coahuila, Miguel Ángel Riquelme and his team.” PBI-Mexico adds, “The objective of this hearing is Read more…
Environmental defender Homero Gómez González, who protected butterflies at the El Rosario sanctuary, has been killed. The sanctuary Gómez González managed is located in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site. On January 30, The Guardian reported, “A Mexican environmental activist who fought to protect the wintering Read more…
In this Razon Publica article, environmental civic leader Erwing Rodríguez-Salah comments, “2020 will be essential for the life of the Santurbán páramo and the millions of inhabitants of Greater Santander, since this year the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS) must issue a new delimitation of the moor.” The Read more…