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TO BE LAUNCHED – Action For Nature and Human Rights: Innovating Law and Governance

Editor: Claudia Ituarte-Lima

Authors: Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Carola Glinski, Olga Giakouminaki, Radu Mares, Irene Musselli, Anna Ott, Minna Pappila, Liisa Varumo and Carlos Pardo Velásquez

  • Legal Submission

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the General Comment on the protection and promotion of the right to environment in Africa in terms of article 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ rights – submission to inform this General Comment

Posted on July 20 by Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Issabell Pope, Maria Andrea Nardi,  Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Angeline Mbaria, Drishti Alagh, Emelie Andersson, Erin Gourley, Lathika Venkatapathy, and Meri Karhunen

  • Amicus Brief

Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to the Climate change Crisis – Amicus Brief on Environmental Human Rights Defenders

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Issabell Pope, Maria Andrea Nardi, Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Angeline Mbaria, Drishti Alagh, Emelie Andersson, Erin Gourley, Lathika Venkatapathy, and Meri Karhunen

  • Legal Clinic Submission

On Human Rights Defenders working on Climate Change and a Just Transitions to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Ana María Vargas Falla, Alejandra
Acosta Jiménez, Valentina Lomanto-Perdomo, Meline Avagyan, Windi Arini, Charlie Meidino
Albajili, Heléna Von Glahn, Paola Cortés, Laura Serna Mosquera, Constanza Mottin and Isabell
Pope

  • Report

Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Biodiversity Governance

Posted on October 22 by Saionara Reis, Carol Rask, Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima and Maria Andrea Nardi

Learn more about the report here.

  • Report

Goblab Minería en Mocoa: Territorio en Disputa

Posted on August 28 by Danna Ximena Tellez Vanegas, Gabriel Garcia Oviedo, Manuela Rozo Camargo, Maria Fernanda Caicedo Chacon, Maria Paula Rincon Cuervo

  • Blog

The Shadows of ”Green”: Who decides, who benefits?and who bears the costs? Some Refections

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Martha Robles Ustariz

M. Robles Ustariz; X. Bekaert, L. Lizarazo Rodríguez, A. Agramont Akiyama, D. Kofi Abu and S. Smis

  • Legal Clinic Submission

On Agri-business, food security and human rights to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Paola Cortés,
Drishti Alagh, Maria Andrea Nardi, Aline Fulgencio

  • Blog

Nature-Based Solutions: Some questions around the concept

Posted on January 7, 2026 by Martha Robles Ustariz

Also available in Spanish and Portuguese

M. Robles Ustariz

  • Research Article

Biodiversity, EU Pesticides Law, and Trade: Deconstructing World Trade Organization Delegates’ Concerns through a Human Rights Lens

Posted on January 6, 2026 by Irene Musselli and

Claudia Ituarte-Lima

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BIODIVERSA+ DEFEND-BIO is funded by the Swedish Research Council (Formas), Innovation Fund Denmark, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Swiss National Science Foundation (SFN), and Dutch Research Council (NWO)

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