Michel Forst
UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention
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- 📸 Testimony from an environmental defender: Carlos Choc's experience with the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #AarhusConvention 🎬 Watch Carlos Choc's testimony: 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2z_... 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=72FP...
- Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience - Available French&Spanish 🇫🇷 👉 shorturl.at/0zfTp 🇪🇸 👉 shorturl.at/jPNrB 🇬🇧 👉 shorturl.at/9KJVb #AarhusConvention #EnvironmentalDefenders #PeacefulProtest #CivilDisobedience
- 📨 The first 2026 edition of my monthly newsletter is out! 💡 If you missed it but want to stay updated on my work and key events and activities to come... 👉 Sign up here for next month: eepurl.com/jtOQ-Y
- 📨 The first 2026 edition of my monthly newsletter is out! 💡 If you missed it but want to stay updated on my work and key events and activities to come... 👉 Sign up here for next month: eepurl.com/jtOQ-Y
- 🚨 🇳🇴 Concerning developments - Norway - Supreme Court judgments - right to peaceful environmental protest - prison sentences imposed on environmental defenders 👉 Read my full statement here: unece.org/sites/defaul... #EnvironmentalDefenders #AarhusConvention #PeacefulProtest
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- 📣 Newsletter - Launching tomorrow! 📆 Tomorrow I will release the first edition of my newsletter. Each month, it will provide an overview of my work as Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. 👉 Subscribe here: eepurl.com/jtOQ-Y
- « Les “outre-mer” ne doivent plus être exclus de la Charte sociale européenne »
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- A relire effectivement à la lumière des vidéo révélées par @mediapart.fr et @liberation.fr
- 🔔 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!
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- 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...
- 🚨 Complaint SRC/72 Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 Dr. Ibadoghlu is an environmental & human rights advocate. 📝 In Feb 2025 I sent a letter to the Gov about his situation to express my concerns about his criminal charges, pre-trial detention & house arrest. My letter shorturl.at/x7cRH & Gov response shorturl.at/yvzTG
- 📝 "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.
- ⚖️ 📣 La décision rendue hier par la CIJ nous rappelle que les défenseurs de l’environnement ne sont pas des extrémistes ou des criminels, mais des gardiens du droit international. Ils sont la voix des générations futures qui rappellent aux états leurs obligations légales de protéger la planète.
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- 🚨 7 Azerbaijani journalists sentenced to 7-9 years on fabricated charges in #AbzasMedia case, including editor Sevinj Vagifgizi who told judges: “What the government fears is what we protect: the truth.” rsf.org/en/azerbaija... #PressFreedom #Azerbaijan #JournalismIsNotACrime
- Pour les uns, la France est en train de sortir complètement des rails de la transition écologique ; pour les autres, le pragmatisme a enfin pris le dessus…une quantité inédite de décisions qui pèseront lourd sur l’avenir de l’écologie se sont succédé… www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
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- 📽️ 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...
- A must read from @business-humanrights.org Many key findings support what I see in my work as Special Rapporteur #EnvironmentalDefenders such as restrictions on #protest and the use of legal harassment #SLAPPs Documentation is essential to raise awareness of the issue and better protect defenders.
- Urgent call: @TotalEnergies and its shareholders must take immediate action to protect environmental defenders in Uganda in the context of the Tilenga/Kingfisher and EACOP projects. unece.org/sites/defaul...
- So powerful ! www.ochaopt.org/content/brie...
- Un début de reconnaissance de la désobéissance civile… On a maintenant plusieurs décisions en première instance et en appel qui vont dans le même sens! france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/auvergne-rho...
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- Comment se construire dans un monde incertain et angoissant ? Louise Aubery n'a absolument pas la réponse. Et c'est pour cela qu'elle accueille la journaliste et autrice @salomesaque.bsky.social dans Adulescence. Je recommande! www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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- Dominique Meda en 2023: “La transition climatique peut-elle se faire sans détruire des centaines de milliers d’emplois ? Comment faire pour mettre en place la formation et les outils nécessaires pour réussir à transformer complètement le marché du travail ?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Dj...
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- A Historic Legal Milestone for Climate Justice in Africa ⚖️ naturaljustice.org/african-clim...
- I am excited to join the LEAD Champions Letter & add my voice for better protection & participation of #EnvironmentalDefenders at #CoP30 and beyond. Their role is essential to protect our planet. www.globalcitizen.org/en/action/in...
- The climate crisis is also a human rights crisis! climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-sto...
- A must read! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Dissent is vital to protect democracy in Britain ! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- A must read!
- 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.
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[Not loaded yet] - A Scots legal justice charity has placed senior Scottish judges in the dock as they call on the United Nations to urgently intervene over an alleged new breach in the law that protects the nation's precious landscape, environment and wildlife. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2501505...
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- The strategies that once guided advocacy are no longer adequate in a world led by strongmen. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/h...
