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Dear Erin, All at GNHRE: Many thanks for writing to me. It is great to know about the tremendous activities by GNHRE this year and the plans 2021 alongside the details of all the team that works in the background. I take this opportunity to wish all of you and your loved ones, health and happiness, peace and prosperity for the Festive Season, the New Year and beyond. With my warmest regards, Sunil ______________________________________ Sunil Murlidhar SHASTRI | FRGS FRSADirector | OceanGovernance LimitedCONSULTANT | EXPERT | SPEAKER ----------------------------------------------------------A: 1 Philip Larkin Close, Hull, HU6 7FB, UKE: [log in to unmask]: +44 7771 685414 (FaceTime/WhatsApp)W: OceanGovernance.org ----------------------------------------------------------T: twitter.com/GovernanceOceanS: OceanGovernance L: linkedin.com/in/sunil-murlidhar-shastri-frgs-frsa-4005604I: instagram.com/OceanGovernance/ F: facebook.com/GovernanceOcean--------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Erin Daly <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 6:13 Subject: GNHRE Greetings December15, 2020 DearGNHRE Members, It’sbeen quite a year for the Global Network for Human Rights and theEnvironment! As you all know, the GNHREis a loose affiliation of lawyers, academics, activists and other professionals,globally dispersed and intellectually diverse, who all share a human rightsorientation to environmental protection. Wewrite now to give you an update of what the GNHRE has been up to, and a previewof the year ahead. TheGNHRE’s greatest resource is the people who are members, and we are especiallygrateful to those members of the Core Team whose energies and enthusiasm havegalvanized the network’s activities. This year, we have expanded the Core Teamto enlarge our global reach and to focus on programming and progress in a fewkey areas. THECORE TEAM Erin Daly, DirectorDina Lupin Townsend, DeputyDirector Astrid Bernal, Media andWeb ContentTim Blackman, WebsiteManagementJosh Gellers, New MembersSara Seck, ResearchRepositoryUday Shankar, New MembersNatalia Urzola, MembershipCoordinator Regional Directors andDeputy DirectorsAfrica: Clive Vinti, CaiphasBrewster Soyapi, Angela KariukiAsia: Uday Shankar andPankaj KarnAsia-Pacific: Peter Burdonand Manuel SolisCaribbean: Lisa BenjaminEurope: Annalisa Savaresiand Margaretha WewerinkeLatin America: Maria AntoniaTigre and Daniel NoroñaNorth America: Sara Seck andRebecca Bratspies Natalia Urzola, our new Membership Coordinator,is excited to be working with GNHRE’s members -- our greatestresource! She'll be developing new opportunities for enhancing members’connections to each other and to support and promote knowledge exchange. One ofthose opportunities is a new mentorship program, which aims to provide a forumwhere one-to-one relationships between members with similar interests andexperience are able to emerge and thrive. Look for some more exciting newprograms in the near future! Astrid Bernal is our new Coordinator for Media and WebContent – ensuring up-to-date communications with our 1.200-1.600 friendsand followers on Facebook and Twitter, with help from Daniella Toma and Otto Spijkers. NEW PROGRAMS This year, for the first time, we organized a seriesof Webinars focusing on Human Rights Strategies in Climate Change Litigation,the recordings of which are available in the Video Library on ournewly renovated website. - A GlobalOverview (June), with Hari Osofsky, Joana Setzer, David Boyd, and Tessa Khan(organized by Annalisa Savaresi) - SoutheastAsia (July), with Surya Deva, Sanjay Upadhyay, Tara PrasadSapkota (organized by Uday Shankar) - LatinAmerica (August), with Soledad Garcia Muñoz, Astrid Puentes, Juan Auz, andMonica Feria-Tinta (organized by Maria Antonia Tigre and Daniel Noroña) - Europe(September), with Roda Verheyen,Andrew Jackson, Dennis van Berkel, and Louise Fournier (organized by MargarethaWewerinke), and - Africa (November),with Nicole Loser, Passy Amayo, Gino Cocchiaro, and Andrew Gilder (organized byClive Vinti, Angela Kariuki, and Caiphas Soyapi) This series complemented a webinar co-sponsored withEnvironmental Law and Governance Association offering an introduction to thefield of human rights and the environment and featuring John Knox, David Boyd,Sumudu Atapattu, and Dina Lupin Townsend. We have also launched a Book Discussionseries, which will continue in 2021. In November, we featured Josh Gellers’ Rights for Robots, available for freedownload! This event is also available in the Video Library. Next year, we’llcomplement the series with Curated Reading Lists on selected topics. Also upcoming: GNHRE is proud to be a co-sponsor ofTHE TIME IS NOW: Canadian and Global Recognition of the Right to a HealthyEnvironment, January 26, 2021, 5-7 pm PST | 8-10 pm ESTRegister now: bit.ly/Enviro2021 Please contact us ([log in to unmask]) if you’d like to discussnew events. NEW WEBSITE FEATURES In addition to our ever-growing community pages –featuring upcoming events, blog posts, and other news of interest to our communitymembers – the new website includes our growing Research Repository, aswell as a page featuring our new institutional partnerships. This year, the GNHRE Community page has featured anumber of exceptional blog posts and commentaries. Maria-Antonia Tigre and VictoriaLichet blogpost in October discussedthe UNHRC's recent adoption of a resolution on realising the rights of thechild through a healthy environment. The blog post explores the critical linksbetween the human rights of children and the protection of a healthyenvironment, a critical issue given the heightened vulnerability of children toair and water pollution as well as to the effects of climate change. InSeptember, Maria Antonia Tigre & Alex Goodman wrote an excellent blogpost on Case ADPF 708 involvingBrazil’s Climate Fund. This case constituted Brazil's first public hearing onclimate policy. The plaintiff's in the case challenged the Bolsonarogovernment's effective policy of paralysing the Fund. This blog post highlightsthe importance of this case, emphasising the Court's decision to hold a hearingand Judge Barroso's statement that “environmental protection is not a politicaloption, but a constitutional duty.” In June, Tracy Lynn Field contributed afascinating discussion of her new book, ‘State Governance of Mining,Development and Sustainability’. In the post, Tracy describes her 'five-yearresearch journey into the languages we speak about mining, development andsustainability, and their translation into legal and economic concepts andrules', providing us with fantastic insight both into the book itself and theroad she took to writing it. In February, Otto Spijkers contributed animportant blogpost on the Urgenda case in the Netherlands and the idea of dikastophobia,challenging us to think about the impacts and costs of the case on publicinterest litigation for the environment. Hector Herrera's blogpost on fracking providedan invaluable human rights perspective on the state of fracking all over theglobe, discussing recent developments and tracking global trends. The postdiscusses developments in regulation and litigation and makes the connectionsbetween human rights, climate change and fracking explicit. In addition tothese insightful and topical blog posts, each of our webinars has beenaccompanied by a blog post. One of the website’s most popular features is thenew Member Spotlight, inwhich we’ve so far featured Gabriela Oanta, Monica Feria-Tinta, Maria AntoniaTigre, and GNHRE Founder Anna Grear. Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Tim Blackman,we continue to improve and strengthen the website. Early next year, we’ll rollout a new Member Profile page; at that point, we’ll ask you to update yourphoto and biographical information. We wish you all a very happy and healthy end of 2021and we look forward to bright things ahead in 2021! Warmly, Erin Daly & Dina Townsend, on behalf of the GNHRECore Team Erin Daly Professor of Law, Delaware Law School Executive Director, Dignity Rights InternationalCo-Founder, Dignity Rights ProjectDirector, Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) Dignity Rights: Constitutions, Courts, and the Worth of the Human Person Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground Global Environmental ConstitutionalismImplementing Environmental ConstitutionalismEnvironmental ConstitutionalismScholarship on SSRN To unsubscribe from the GNHRE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=GNHRE&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GNHRE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=GNHRE&A=1