In pictures: World Environment Day Show all 8. Your support helps us to tell the story. ... 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, ...

If we want a world where our human and environmental rights are elevated, we must place as much importance on our responsibilities to humanity and the planet as we put on our rights. The Universal ...

Image courtesy of MONUSCO Photos via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0). The next day, Jan. 27, the M23 announced that Goma, ...

L.D. 489 would enshrine the rights in the Maine constitution for both present and future generations to come. The natural beauty of Maine is breathtaking, stretching from salt marshes to forests ...

Powerful pictures of environmental destruction to honor Earth Day on April 22, 2013.

New York’s new constitutional right to a clean environment faces first judicial test A case challenging a landfill provides the first insights into how the courts — and state officials ...

A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration violated the free-speech rights of nonprofits and municipalities that have had federal funding for climate and environmental projects frozen or cancelled.

Ultimately, New York courts will decide the scope of each person's environmental rights. In the short term, Gov. Kathy Hochul can do much to ensure that the state observes these elemental rights.

As Human Rights Watch’s work in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and elsewhere shows, companies are often responsible for environmental destruction or other rights abuses.

If we want a world where our human and environmental rights are elevated, we must place as much importance on our responsibilities to humanity and the planet as we put on our rights. The Universal ...