This submission was presented to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment in May 2024. It addresses the critical links between environmental degradation and the protection of fundamental human rights.

The submission calls on states and international bodies to recognise the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a universal human right. It emphasises that communities most exposed to environmental harm are often those with the least political power and fewest legal protections.

Recommendations focus on strengthening accountability for environmental violations, protecting environmental human rights defenders, and ensuring meaningful participation by affected communities in environmental governance and decision-making processes.