Brazil: Join Regional Treaty on Environment, Defenders

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Environmental defenders. © Win Edson for Human Rights Watch (São Paulo) – The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should rally legislators to approve the Escazú Agreement, more than 150 Brazilian and international organizations said today in a letter to Institutional Relations Minister Alexandre Padilha. The regional agreement protects the rights of access to information and to justice, as well as public participation in decision-making processes on environmental matters, and contains specific provisions for protecting environmental human…

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