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This case study examines the World Bank's $400 million investment in the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for power plant expansions in Singrauli, India, highlighting failures in resettlement, environmental protection, and human rights.

This briefing paper by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and CARE International argues that climate change is a critical human rights challenge. It examines how climate impacts and the responses to them threaten fundamental rights and provides a set of policy recommendations to integrate a human rights-based approach into the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process.

This briefing, prepared by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and CARE International, argues that climate change is the greatest human rights challenge of the current era. It calls for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to integrate human rights protections into its policies, particularly as the international community negotiated the 2015 climate agreement. The document outlines how climate impacts threaten fundamental rights and provides specific policy recommendations to ensure that climate mitigation and adaptation efforts do not further violate human rights.

This research paper proposes a rights-based analytical tool to broaden the understanding of adaptive capacity by focusing on the socio-political causes of exclusion and marginalization, illustrated through a case study of aquatic agricultural systems in Timor-Leste.

This guide, published by Natural Justice in December 2014, provides an overview of regional and international grievance and advocacy mechanisms available to indigenous peoples and local communities. It categorizes these tools into UN human rights systems, regional human rights systems, international and regional financial institutions, industry-specific standards, and other advocacy opportunities, detailing eligibility, processes, and potential barriers for each.

This amicus curiae brief, submitted by member organizations of the El Salvador National Roundtable on Mining (La Mesa) via the Center for International Environmental Law, argues that El Salvador's denial of a mining exploitation concession to Pac Rim Cayman LLC was consistent with international human rights and environmental obligations. The brief contends that the state must implement regulatory frameworks to protect citizens from the risks of extractive industries, particularly in water-scarce regions, and that public interest should be defined through environmental democracy and access rights.

A statement by Friends of the Earth International denouncing a police operation on May 23, 2014, against communities resisting the 'Progreso VII derivada' mining project in Guatemala.

This report by Friends of the Earth International (ATI) documents violence and human rights violations against environmental defenders between November 2011 and October 2013. It argues that these attacks are a global trend driven by a neoliberal extractivist model and corporate dominance, which often results in the criminalization and physical persecution of activists, indigenous peoples, and local communities.

This report by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) documents violence and human rights violations against environmental defenders between November 2011 and October 2013. It argues that these attacks are a global trend driven by a neoliberal extractive model that prioritizes corporate profit over the rights of nature and people. The document details various forms of repression—including criminalization, arbitrary detention, and targeted killings—and evaluates the effectiveness of international solidarity and legal strategies in protecting defenders.

This briefing paper by the Center for International Environmental Law analyzes human rights issues addressed during the COP19 negotiations in Warsaw, Poland, focusing on ambition, the Clean Development Mechanism, gender, the Green Climate Fund, public participation, and REDD+.

A statement by Friends of the Earth International calling for the release of Berta Cáceres and other activists in Honduras, alleging state-sponsored violence and corporate persecution of indigenous and peasant defenders of ancestral territories.

This report by the Center for International Environmental Law analyzes the human rights implications of the 'Doha Gateway' decisions from the UNFCCC 18th Conference of the Parties. It argues that while the decisions do not explicitly reference human rights, the outcomes regarding mitigation ambition, loss and damage, REDD+, the Clean Development Mechanism, public participation, and gender have significant impacts on vulnerable populations.

A submission by the Human Rights & Climate Change Working Group and partner organizations to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, arguing that the 2015 climate agreement must explicitly integrate human rights obligations into its guiding principles, mitigation, adaptation, and financing frameworks.

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) critiques the outcomes of COP18 in Doha, arguing that the negotiations lacked political will and failed to protect the human rights of vulnerable communities despite the UNFCCC's 2010 recognition of the link between climate change and human rights.

This commentary by the Center for International Environmental Law argues that the international climate change regime has historically failed to address the human rights implications of both climate change and the implementation of climate policies, and suggests that the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) provides opportunities to rectify this.

A statement by Friends of the Earth Argentina detailing the expansion of large-scale mining in Argentina and the subsequent repression of environmental activists and local populations who oppose the extractivist model.

A statement by Friends of the Earth International detailing human rights violations and state repression of anti-mining protests in Argentina, highlighting the conflict between large-scale extractive projects and the rights to water and a healthy environment.

A statement by Friends of the Earth International condemning the Peruvian government's violent response to environmental protests against mining projects, specifically citing deaths and injuries in El Espinar, Bambamarca, and Celedín, as well as the detention of Father Marco Arana.

This policy paper advocates for a human rights-based approach to climate finance to ensure that mitigation and adaptation efforts do not violate human rights or cause social and environmental harm. It proposes six guiding principles—including 'Do No Harm' and public participation—and provides detailed recommendations for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to implement robust safeguards, a transparent monitoring system, and an independent grievance mechanism.

A statement delivered by Marcos Orellana of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) to the UN Human Rights Council, urging the establishment of a special procedure to address the human rights dimensions of the environment and climate change.