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🌍 Social Rights, Social Justice, and the Environment: A Common Cause 🌱 The environment is not just a matter of nature – it’s a matter of justice. The Council of Europe’s new Strategy for the Environment (2024–2030) sends a clear message: we cannot address environmental challenges without also tackling inequality, poverty, and human rights. Environmental degradation disproportionately affects the most vulnerable – from access to clean air and water, to housing and health. 🟢 A healthy environment is a precondition for the enjoyment of social rights. 🔵 Social justice must include environmental justice – ensuring that no community bears an unfair share of environmental harm, and that future generations inherit a livable planet. With this Strategy, the Council of Europe is taking a decisive step to integrate human rights, rule of law, and democracy into environmental governance – reaffirming that protecting people and protecting the planet go hand in hand. Let’s work together to build fairer, greener, and more resilient societies. 🌱⚖️ Protection of the environment at the Council of Europe Social Rights at the Council of Europe #SocialJustice #EnvironmentalRights #CouncilOfEurope #HumanRights #Sustainability #GreenTransition #EnvironmentalJustice #RuleOfLaw #SocialRights #ClimateAction #EuropeanSocialCharter
Very positively, the #EuropeanSocialCharter is recognised as a key framing instrument in the new Council of Europe Strategy on the Environment, notably in terms of its Strategic Objective 1: Integrating human rights considerations in environment-related strategies, instruments, legislation, policies and actions, and vice versa) https://lnkd.in/edVQRt9g There is however no mention of the fact that the #righttoahealthyenvironment has been expressly recognised as protected by the Charter since 2006 in the case-law of the Euro Committee of #Social Rights and can be the subject of collective complaints brought to the Committee. For more, see paras 195-6 of Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR) v. Greece, Complaint No. 30/2005) and in the COE Manual on #HumanRights and the #Environment. https://lnkd.in/eS8qn2jW https://lnkd.in/ekXRRWxp
