Report of the Thematic Workshop on Human Rights as enabling condition in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

The purpose of this workshop was to identify how a human rights-based approach can best be included in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for ensuring conservation, sustainable use, and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of the world’s biodiversity, leading towards the 2050 vision of a world living in harmony with nature. The workshop was co-convened by Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Development and Law Organization (IDLO), Natural Justice, UN Environment and SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre. The outputs of the workshop included text proposals for options on how, where and why to include and integrate human rights for achieving conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing of biodiversity, and contributing to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The process included webinars in English, French and Spanish. In 2021, the report has also become an information document to SBI 3 (CBD/SBI/3/INF/22)

sbi-03-inf-22-en.pdf

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Applying a human rights-based approach – Guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

A human rights-based approach (HRBA) in the context of biodiversity conservation, means that biodiversity policies, governance and management do not violate human rights. This can be achieved if those implementing such policies actively seek ways to support and promote human rights in their design and implementation. The report authors urge the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to integrate, maintain and strengthen elements of a human rights-based approach in the final draft of the framework. The analysis brief was prepared by members of the “Human Rights in Biodiversity Working Group including Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), CBD Alliance, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), ICCA Consortium, Natural Justice, SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Tebtebba Foundation, WWF International, Friends of the Earth International, the CBD Women’s Caucus and Women4Biodiversity.

humanrights_biodiv-AUG.pdf

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Human Rights-Based Approaches to Conserving Biodiversity: Equitable, Effective and Imperative

This Policy Brief builds upon the 2020 report to the General Assembly titled ‘Human Rights Depend on a Healthy Biosphere’ by David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment. It advocates for a more inclusive, just and sustainable approach to safeguarding and restoring biodiversity, and outline the human rights costs and limited efficacy of exclusionary conservation. It makes the case for a human rights-based paradigm shift within conservation, beginning with essential improvements to the draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

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Human right to a healthy environment for a thriving earth – Handbook for weaving human rights, SDGs and the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

This handbook discusses strategies on how to incorporate the human right to a clean and healthy environment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework with a focus on the Global South. The authors, from a number of institutions and countries, reveal innovative strategies being used at international, national and local levels to recognize and implement the right to a healthy environment. The global recognition of the human right to a healthy environment would be a significant step in empowering courageous environmental human rights defenders, women and men, youth and children, who are ready to stand-up for human rights and healthy ecosystems. Building on collective efforts, two complementary strategies are proposed to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework: (1) a right to a healthy environment as a stand-alone target, and (2) a rights-based approach incorporated across all targets.

FinalHandbookHumanRightsBiodiversityCILMSeds2019.pdf

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Global Dialogue on Human Rights and Biodiversity Conservation

This report was developed based on the Global Dialogue on Human Rights and Biodiversity Conservation, held on 20–23 November 2017 in Eldoret, Kenya. It was co-convened by SwedBio, Forest Peoples Programme and Natural Justice and hosted by the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples’ Development Project (CIPDP), founded by the Ogiek Indigenous community of Mt Elgon, Kenya. The dialogue held the conviction that Indigenous and local people and conservation organisations can be strategic allies, mutually supporting one another for enhanced Human Rights promotion and biodiversity and ecosystems governance. The objectives of the dialogue were: firstly, to foster open and forward-looking discussions about actions to support the Ogiek and Sengwer Indigenous peoples of Kenya, in their struggle to keep living in and governing their ancestral lands, which are rich in biodiversity and form the base for their livelihoods; and secondly, to advance a larger process evaluating and improving existing approaches, tools and practices that emerged based on the conviction that human rights protection can and should be complementary to safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems.

SUNI-161-Report-Dialogue-on-Human-Rights_WEB.pdf

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Implementing a human rights-based approach - What is urgently needed to effectively adopt a human rights-based approach across the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

This briefing paper seeks to unpack what these commitments mean in practice, by bringing in international legal principles on human rights, and applying these across the GBF. Building on previous analyses in April 2021 and in August 2021. It seeks to provide a more in-depth discussion about monitoring and review, including proposed indicators at all levels to assess progress, success and weaknesses. The authors from the Group urge the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to effectively integrate and strengthen a human rights-based approach. As for now, the human rights-related advancements are not sufficient and without further improvement, the framework risks falling short of its ambition to achieve transformative change, they argue. This latest brief is so far the most hands-on policy brief on the implementation, monitoring and reporting of a human rights-based approach in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The brief was collaboratively compiled by members of the Human Rights in Biodiversity working group established in Chiang Mai, 2020. Members contributing included Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), CBD Alliance, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), ICCA Consortium, Natural Justice, Tebtebba Foundation, WWF International, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Friends of the Earth International, the CBD Women’s Caucus, Women4Biodiversity and SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre.

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Report of the Thematic Workshop on Human Rights as Enabling Condition in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

The purpose of this workshop was to identify how a human rights-based approach can best be included in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for ensuring conservation, sustainable use, and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of the world’s biodiversity, leading towards the 2050 vision of a world living in harmony with nature. The workshop was co-convened by Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Development and Law Organization (IDLO), Natural Justice, UN Environment and SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre. The outputs of the workshop included text proposals for options on how, where and why to include and integrate human rights for achieving conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing of biodiversity, and contributing to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The process included webinars in English, French and Spanish. In 2021, the report has also become an information document to SBI 3 (CBD/SBI/3/INF/22)

sbi-03-inf-22-en.pdf

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The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

On October 8th, 2021, the Human Rights Council recognised, for the first time, that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. In this resolution 48/13, the Council called on States around the world to work together, and with other partners, to implement this newly recognised right and build on this momentum to move beyond the false separation of environmental action and protection of human rights, as it is all too clear that neither goal can be achieved without the other.

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Applying a human rights-based approach - Guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

A human rights-based approach (HRBA) in the context of biodiversity conservation, means that biodiversity policies, governance and management do not violate human rights. This can be achieved if those implementing such policies actively seek ways to support and promote human rights in their design and implementation. The report authors urge the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to integrate, maintain and strengthen elements of a human rights-based approach in the final draft of the framework. The analysis brief was prepared by members of the “Human Rights in Biodiversity Working Group including Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), CBD Alliance, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), ICCA Consortium, Natural Justice, SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Tebtebba Foundation, WWF International, Friends of the Earth International, the CBD Women’s Caucus and Women4Biodiversity. This brief was included on the Virtual Display, as one of the supporting documents, during the Open Ended Working Group 3 Session.

humanrights_biodiv-AUG.pdf

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