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Annual thematic reports of the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment

The Special Rapporteur submits a report to the UN Human Rights Council as well as to the UN General Assembly on an annual basis, as mandated by the UN Human Rights Council resolution 37/8.

Year	Document number	Title	Statement	Press releases
2022	A/HRC/49/53 Annex 1 - Additional sacrifice zones Annex 2 - Good Practices Visual annex	Non toxic environment to live, work, study and play	49^th session of the HRC
2021	A/76/179 Annex - Good Pratices	Healthy and sustainable food: reducing the environmental impacts of food systems on human rights	76^th session of the General Assembly
2021	A/HRC/46/28 Annex - Good Pratices User friendly version	Human rights and the global water crisis: water pollution, water scarcity and water-related disasters	46^th session of the HRC	UN expert: Water crisis is worsening, urgent response needed
2020	A/75/161 Annex - Good Pratices User friendly version	A healthy biosphere and the right to a healthy environment	75th session of the General Assembly	N/A
2020	A/HRC/43/53 (Annex III - Additional Good Practices) Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Constitutions, Legislation and Treaties Annex IV – Africa Annex V – Asia-Pacific Annex VI – Eastern Europe Annex VII – Latin America and the Caribbean Annex VIII – Western Europe and Others	Good practices on the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment (call for inputs)	43rd session of the HRC (Video of the interactive dialogue)	N/A
2020	A/HRC/43/54 (Advance Edited Version)	Summary of report of meeting on the right to a healthy environment
2019	A/74/161 (User-friendly version) (Annex – good practices) User friendly version	Safe climate	74th session of the General Assembly (Video of the interactive dialogue)	N/A
2019	A/HRC/40/55 User friendly version	Clean air and the right to a healthy and sustainable environment	40th session of the HRC (Video of the interactive dialogue)	Air pollution: The silent killer that claims 7 million lives each year Clean air is a human right (video)
2018	A/73/188	Global recognition of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment	73rd session of the GA (Video of the interactive dialogue)	Environmental hazards kill 8 million a year: UN expert urges global recognition of the human right to a healthy environment
2018	A/HRC/37/58	Children’s rights and the environment (Child-friendly version Arabic \| Chinese \| English \| French \| Russian \| Spanish)	37th session of the HRC (Video of the interactive dialogue)	UN expert calls for global recognition of the right to safe and healthy environment
2018	A/HRC/37/59	Framework Principles (user-friendly version)
2017	A/HRC/34/49	Biodiversity	34th session of the HRC (Video of the interactive dialogue)	States must fulfil human rights obligations in protecting biodiversity, UN expert urges
2016	A/HRC/31/52	Climate change	31st Session of the HRC (Video of the interactive dialogue)
2016	A/HRC/31/53	Implementation report
2015	A/HRC/28/61	Good practices report	28th Session of the HRC (Video of the interactive dialogue)
2014	A/HRC/25/53	Mapping report	25th session of the Human Rights Council (Video of the interactive dialogue)	UN expert urges States to take into account human rights obligations in their environmental policies (Arabic \| Chinese \| \| English)
2013	A/HRC/22/43	Preliminary report	22nd session of the Human Rights Council (Video of the interactive dialogue)	Environment and human rights: the link is there, and so is the States’ obligation to protect them – UN expert (Chinese \| English)

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