By a vote of 161-0-8 (abstentions), the UN General Assembly in July passed a resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and called upon States, international... Read More
[Photo Credit: Velvet/Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License] Vance Center Environment Program Staff Attorney Sam Bookman joined in a discussion at The Hague Peace Palace re... Read More
The Vance Center Environment Program co-hosted workshops over two days with the Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network – WECAN International for the benefit of WECAN’s network of women and ... Read More
The Vance Center and its African partners West African Bar Association, Pan African Lawyers Union, and West African Civil Society Forum, organized a four-part webinar series on democracy, electio... Read More
The 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize for South & Central America has been awarded to two Ecuadorian Indigenous land defenders, Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvarez. The Goldman Prize is the worl... Read More
(Photo credit: Shutterstock) The Environment Program recently co-sponsored an expert seminar on “United Nations Recognition of the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment: Past De... Read More
