Setting a Roadmap for a Feminist Green Transformation
GI-ESCR just released its new publication: “Setting a Roadmap for a Feminist Green Transformation: Using Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights as Guiding Tools for a Gender-Just Transition”. This publication seeks to provide a guiding tool on how international human rights, especially economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights could establish thresholds and priorities to deliver a gender-just transition toward a sustainable future.
The brief analyses crosscutting ESC rights principles of equality and non-discrimination, progressive realisation, maximum available resources, and minimum core obligations; and the content of key substantive and procedural ESCE rights that are relevant to gender-just transition policies. By exploring ESCE principles and rights, the paper seeks to establish a broader conception of just transitions that goes beyond worker’s rights, as traditionally envisaged, to establish a comprehensive agenda covering the basic range of rights necessary to ensure foundations of socio-economic wellbeing and the protection of the environment.
This briefing paper was launched at a side event on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights and Just Transitions held at the 51° session of the Human Rights Council. The event was co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Chile, Finland, and the European Union to the United Nations in Geneva with the support of civil society organizations: Interamerican Association of Environmental Defence (AIDA) and Public Services International (PSI). The event detonated a conversation on the role of human rights in green transition processes between the following experts and activists working in the field:
Magdalena Sepúlveda, Executive Director of GI-ESCR and former Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights;
Joie Chowdhury, Program Coordinator, Environment and ESCR of ESCR-Net;
Michael Windfuhr, Expert Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR); and
Todd Howland, Chief of Branch, Development, Economic and Social Rights at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).