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🌏 2025 BLC Online: Advancing Environmental Rights in Southeast Asia

As part of the online phase of this year’s BLC, 24 participants from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Malaysia—including NHRI staff, prosecutors, and public interest lawyers—joined two insightful webinars.
 
Webinar 1 – Transboundary Environmental Harm: Lessons from Indonesia
Led by Prof. M. R. Andri Gunawan Wibisana, participants explored precedent-setting cases, including Tanjung Jati Coal Plant and peat fire litigation, highlighting holistic EIAs, market-share liability, and the application of human rights–based arguments in environmental cases.
 
Webinar 2 – Right to a Healthy Environment
Led by Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima, discussions focused on:
• Ecosystem-based approaches linking human rights and environmental protection.
• Global and regional developments, including the ICJ Advisory Opinion and UN resolutions.
• Local implementation challenges and opportunities across SEA.

📌 Key Takeaways:
Environmental rights intersect with human rights and are reinforced by international and regional legal frameworks. The discussions underscored the need for multi-actor collaboration, highlighted the vital contribution of legal practitioners on the ground in shaping future frameworks, and reinforced that procedural rights are essential to advancing environmental justice. A human rights–based approach can also strengthen accountability, ensuring that justice remains central in addressing environmental harms.

🤝 Strengthening partnerships on urgent human rights issues!

RWI Indonesia, represented by Country Director Windi Arini and Programme Officer Charlie Albajili, met with Dr. Prabianto Mukti Wibowo, M.Sc., Vice Chair for Internal Affairs and Commissioner for Complaints at Komnas HAM (Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights) .ham

The meeting explored potential collaboration on business and human rights (BHR), environment, and climate change—all priority areas for Komnas HAM and RWI. 🌱⚖️

The discussion also touched on the recent ICJ advisory opinion on climate change and the importance of effective remedy mechanisms for rights violations linked to business and environmental harm.

We look forward to working together to advance rights-based solutions to these urgent challenges. 💪