Environment
As the world urbanizes and industrializes, and as effects of climate change intensify, environmental crises will increasingly devastate the lives, health, and livelihoods of people around the globe. A lack of legal regulation and enforcement of industrial and artisanal mining, large-scale dams, deforestation, domestic water and sanitation systems, and heavily polluting industries can lead to host of human rights violations. Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment may face intimidation, legal harassment and deadly violence. The primary victims of environmental harm are often impoverished and marginalized communities with limited opportunity to meaningfully participate in decision-making and public debate on environmental issues, and have little access to independent courts to achieve accountability and redress.
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US: Heat Emergency Plans Missing Pregnancy, Racial Justice
Cities, Federal Agencies, Should Broaden Responses to Climate Change
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US Environmental Agency Greenlights Neurotoxic Pesticide
Science Links Exposure to Chlorpyrifos to Developmental Delay in Children
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US Heat Deaths Among Older People Rising
Excessive Heat Also Harms Mental Health, Pregnancy, and Birth Outcomes
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The Dangerous Job of Protecting the Environment in Russia
Environmental rights groups in the country are facing severe harassment by the authorities.
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Bad News for the US on World Prematurity Day
Address Climate, Environmental Impacts Along with Worsening Premature Birth Rates
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