March 3rd, 2017 | Student Life | Comments Off
Audrey Koncsol (JD ’18), a summer and academic year research assistant to Professor John Knox, is traveling with him to Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the 34th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the Palais de Nations, headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
January 9th, 2017 | Campus | Comments Off
In January 2017, Republicans will control the White House and both branches of Congress, which suggests a vastly different outlook for the United States on issues related to the environment, climate change and energy.
The Wake Forest University Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) has gathered environmental, political and academic experts from Wake Forest Law to explain how the United States’ environmental policy will take shape under the Trump Administration. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Byrum Welcome Center.
December 9th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor John Knox, in his role as the first UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, calls on countries to comply with laws that protect environment defenders in the following Just Earth News story, “UN rights expert calls on countries to comply with laws that protect environment defenders,” that ran on India Blooms on Dec. 8, 2016.
December 14th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor John Knox is expected to receive a special report regarding the investigation of human rights violations against communities surrounding Republic Services’ West Lake Superfund landfill site in Bridgeton, Missouri, in his role as UN Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights and Environment Program. Read the original story here. Continue reading »
December 2nd, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest University Professors John Knox and Justin Catanoso will be on hand as representatives from more than 190 countries meet over the next two weeks in France to work out a new international agreement on climate change. Continue reading »
May 5th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox tells the United Nations Radio that increases in global warming of even half of a degree Celsius impact people’s ability to enjoy their human rights. Continue reading »
January 9th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor John Knox tells GlobalWarmingIsReal.com that the international community must do more to protect environmentalists in the article “The Slaughter of Innocents: Our Complicity in the Murder of Environmentalists” published on Thursday, Jan. 8th:
November 19th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox will speak about his experience at the first independent expert on human rights and the environment for the United Nations on Thursday, Nov. 20, at noon in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312.
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October 30th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and the environment, John Knox, will undertake an official visit to France from 20 – 24 October 2014, to assess how the country is implementing human rights relating to environmental protection and to identify good practices.
“France is at the forefront at linking human rights with environmental protection,” the expert said, praising it for being the first country to devote an entire constitutional declaration to the right to the environment.
The French Environment Charter raises sustainable development to the highest level in France’s legal structure, alongside the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the preamble to the 1946 Constitution.
“However,” Mr. Knox stressed, “it is important to assess the lessons learned and challenges faced in the country with regard to realisation of such environmental rights, as well as how it is addressing global environmental challenges with human rights impacts, such as climate change.”
During his five-day visit, at the invitation of the Government, the UN Independent Expert will meet Government officials and experts, as well as representatives of civil society.
Mr. Knox will present his preliminary observations on the visit at a press conference on the last day of the mission, Friday 24 October at 11:00, at Salle René Cassin, Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (CNCDH), 35 rue saint Dominique, 75007 Paris.
Read the story on The Asia Digest.
October 11th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and toxic waste, Marc Pallemaerts, and the U.N. Independent Expert on human rights and the environment, Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox, welcomed today the signing of the world’s first global treaty to control mercury by some 140 countries and territories, at an international conference in Minamata City, Japan.
