(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
(Photo Credit: Amazon Frontlines) The Constitutional Court of Ecuador relied on an amicus brief facilitated by the Vance Center in an historic decision on the rights of Indigenous peoples to free... Read More
The Vance Center Environment Program facilitated the filing of an amicus brief on behalf two UN Special Rapporteurs, in support of a claim by Indigenous Ecuadorian communities affected by a massi... Read More
The Vance Center Environment Program facilitated the presentation of an expert amicus brief in support of the constitutional rights of two Indigenous communities before the Constitutional Court o... Read More
The Vance Center took gratification from the outcome of the October 8 session of the Human Rights Council, where, by a vote of 43-0-4 (abstentions), the United Nations for the first time recogniz... Read More
The Vance Center Environment Program assisted the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics, Dr. Marcos Orellana, in preparing a report delivered to the United Nations Human Ri... Read More
