Environmental Rights

This piece follows three young advocates and activists as they work towards a regional policy for environmental rights with the ASEAN Environmental Rights Working Group – highlighting both their potential and the challenges they face in driving meaningful change.

Indigenous Peoples face huge challenges in participating in official decision-making processes. This piece explores how the ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights has provided few opportunities for Indigenous Peoples to fully and meaningfully engage with the first-ever regional instrument that brings together human rights and the environment in Southeast Asia.