🔔 Report on key trends and threats
📣 This report outlines key trends & makes recommendations to Parties to @UNECE #AarhusConvention for the protection of #EnvironmentalDefenders
👉 Full report ENG official unece.org/sites/defaul...
& reader-friendly unece.org/sites/defaul...

🔔Report on complaints and activities
💡 Info & data on complaints received & activities undertaken as Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders
👉 Full report ENG – official unece.org/sites/defaul... & reader-friendly unece.org/sites/defaul...

#UNECE #AarhusConvention

🔔 Report on regional consultations with environmental defenders
🌎 10 consultations
📣 Key challenges & threats for #EnvironmentalDefenders
👉 Full report ENG official unece.org/sites/defaul... & reader-friendly unece.org/sites/defaul...
#UNECE #AarhusConvention

NOW OUT: Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience

📝 A set of Guiding & Operational Principles for the effective protection of peaceful #EnvironmentalProtesters

👉 Full Guidelines (English): unece.org/sites/defaul...

#UNECE #AarhusConvention

POSTPONED: Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience

⏱️ The long awaited Guidelines have to wait a bit more. Sometimes things can go unexpectedly, even for Special Rapporteurs. Hopefully you will read them with even more interest - stay tuned!

At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared in 2024, more than worrying!

"Standing up to injustice should never be a death sentence" - @Global_Witness

globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...

📝 "Protecting environmental defenders to safeguard environmental democracy"

My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...

🇩🇰 In Copenhagen for the conference Together for Global Climate Action Towards COP30 by GlobalFocus & @caneurope.org.

📣 Parties to the #AarhusConvention should demonstrate leadership for the safe participation of #EnvironmentalDefenders in #COP30 as a key step in achieving just climate action.

📽️ The short film about my mandate is now available with Hungarian subtitles

📽️ Az Aarhusi Egyezmény környezetvédőkkel foglalkozó különmegbízottjának megbízatásáról szóló kisfilm már magyar felirattal is megtekinthető 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uz2...

This week I was in the #UK to follow up on complaints and meet with the Government and #EnvironmentalDefenders who submitted complaints to my mandate.

Among these complainants was Dr. Patrick Hart, whom I visited in prison on Wednesday. This is where he spent the last three months of his life.