Twelve years after California became the first state in the nation to declare a “human right to water,” achieving this basic societal goal of securing clean water for all 39 million state residents is ...
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Healthy oceans are a human right (commentary)
By Nathan Bennett Months after a container ship went down off the coast of India, toxic pollution still contaminates the ...
A new report from Northeastern University’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy details how U.S. water policy and infrastructure discriminate against Black, Brown, and Indigenous ...
Citizen groups are warning that new proposed water laws repeat the same mistakes that have been made in the past.
María, a 41-year-old Indigenous Maya woman from Guatemala lives without access to running water. Three times a week, she makes a two-hour round trip to collect water from a well or ravine, sometimes ...
Did you know that in California, there’s a human right to affordable water? In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 685, adding this language to the state Water Code: “every human being has the ...
Barely a month after he took office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom journeyed to a rural school in the Central Valley and stood by chance against a backdrop more prescient than he had planned: a classroom ...
A young protester in India makes a statement about dangerous levels of air pollution. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images The declaration is not legally binding – countries can vote to support a ...
The way we respond to climate change also affects human rights. For example: Switching to clean energy creates jobs and improves health, but workers in coal and gas need support to transition.
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