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UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment / Relatora Especial 🇺🇳 del DH al ambiente limpio, sano y sostenible

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 27d

📢 Call for Inputs | Clean Air 🌳
ALL INVITED to send your inputs for my 4° report!

With the objective of creating a further understanding of useful tools to include health impacts in environmental air pollution governance.

🗓Deadline: Oct 16th
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

Moderator: Rio Hada, Chief of the Equality, Development and Rule of Law Section OHCHR NY Office
🌿 We look forward to your participation in this important discussion.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

SPEAKERS:
ELISA MORGERA: Special Rapporteur, Human rights and climate change
ASTRID PUENTES RIAÑO: Special Rapporteur, Human right to a healthy environment
PEDRO ARROJO-AGUDO: Special Rapporteur, Human rights to safe water /sanitation

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

For those attending in person, please arrive at least 15 minutes before the event to facilitate building access.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

✍️Registration: This event will be held both in-person and online. Registration is required and can be completed at the following TEAMS link before the end of the day on Wednesday, 15 October (New York time). Online registrants will receive a link to the event upon registration.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

📆 Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕐 Time: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
📍 Location: 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite #120, East 48th Street & First Avenue, New York

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to invite you to the hybrid event next Thursday in New York, where I will be pleased to present my report proposing a Framework for environmental, social, and human rights impact assessments, to make sure that States and businesses comply with their obligations.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 Join us, in person or online, along with my colleagues Special Rapporteurs Elisa Morgera and Pedro Arrojo

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

✉️ La carta está disponible aquí: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

🔎 Recordamos la obligación esencial de Ecuador de respetar, proteger y garantizar los derechos humanos, incluyendo el acceso a la información, la participación pública y el acceso a la justicia, y el derecho al ambiente limpio, sano y sostenible.

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

así como ser regulaciones regresivas para los derechos humanos, que podrían ser contrarias a las obligaciones internacionales del Estado.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

🔶Ambas normas, emitidas bajo el Plan de Eficiencia Administrativa, podrían implicar retrocesos en la protección de los derechos humanos, en especial el derecho a un ambiente limpio, sano y sostenible,

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

🔶 Dichas normas modifican aspectos esenciales de la gestión ambiental del país, con posibles impactos en derechos humanos, incluyendo del derecho al #ambientesano y fueron tramitadas de forma exprés y sin participación pública ni consulta previa.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

1️⃣ La Ley Orgánica para el Fortalecimiento de Áreas Protegidas y
2️⃣ Decreto Ejecutivo No. 60 de reorganización institucional, que fusiona el Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica (MAATE) al Ministerio de Energía y Minas

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 1d

Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Comparto la carta enviada junto con otros 7 mandatos de procedimientos especiales de la ONU al Estado ecuatoriano expresando nuestra preocupación por la promulgación de:

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

Our letter is here: lnkd.in/gMBKVAY2

AICHR reply is available here lnkd.in/gpBEZEHF

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

🔔 make sure that the process and the Declaration comply with fundamental principles of transparency, public participation and access to justice, guaranteeing that people can participate in a safely manner, without risk of intimidation or reappraisal.

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

🔔 incorporate commitments to enhance international cooperation to address transboundary environmental issues, strengthen capacity-building, and share good practices,

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

🔔 importance of addressing the situation of environmental human rights defenders and ensuring, at a minimum, to do so in a manner consistent with other regional environmental agreements on HR and the envt,

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

🔔 recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their lands, territories and resources and knowledge and their entitlement to give or withhold their free, prior, and informed consent with respect to decisions that might impact them,

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

🔔 articulate specific protection for the rights of persons, groups, and peoples in vulnerable situations, including environmental human rights defenders and Indigenous Peoples,

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

🔔 international agreements and human rights treaties that States are part to, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which includes vital interpretations that will help States to better implement the ASEAN Declaration,

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

In our letters a few key aspects were highlighted, including the need that the Declaration includes:

Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate AICHR Malaysia response on behalf of AICHR and the possibility to collaborate and exchange perspectives towards the best way to protect and guarantee the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · 2d

With colleagues from Special Procedures, we respectfully sent two letters (OL OTH 111/2024 in July 2024, and OL OTH 44/2025 in April of this year) to comment on existent drafts and highlight important elements.