COP 16 – From Agreements to Actions – The Global Biodiversity Framework needs Human Rights at its Heart

Here you will be able to find text recommendations, guidance and input on human rights for COP 16, developed by the Human Rights and Biodiversity Group. In their diversity as Indigenous peoples, women, local communities, girls, youth and other supporting organisations the group makes a joint call for putting human rights at the heart of the Global Biodiversity Framework.This page will serve as knowledge plattform and will be updated continuously with new materials and events during the time meetings are held 21 October – 01 November.

READ THE KEY ASKS HERE

GUIDANCE

The Human Rights and Biodiversity Working Group established in Chiang Mai, 2020 has collaboratively compiled the following guidance documents on meaningful human rights implementation in the Global Biodiversity Framework. The authors urge Parties and decision-makers, non-state actors, and rights holders, to embed a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in the implementation and monitoring at national and sub-national levels. As for now, the human rights-related advancements are not sufficient and without further improvement the framework risks falling short of its ambition to achieve transformative change, they argue.

NEW Guide: From Agreements to Actions: A guide to applying a human rights-based approach to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

NEW Guide: Advancing Human Rights-based Approaches to Target 3 Implementation

• Paper 1: Options for integrating a human-rights based approach to achieve the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity
• Paper 2: Applying a human rights-based approach to the Global Biodiversity Framework 
• Paper 3: Implementing a Human Rights-Based Approach: What Is Urgently Needed to Effectively Adopt a Human Rights-Based Approach across the Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
• Paper 4: A Rights-based Path for People and Planet: Realising Human Rights in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

• https://www.forestpeoples.org/sites/default/files/documents/Advancing%20Human%20Rights-based%20Approaches%20to%20Target%203%20Implementation.pdf

Key Asks

The Human Rights and Biodiversity group is currently preparing a short summary of the key asks.

Events

Here you will shortly find a list of events co-organised by members of the Human Rights and Biodiversity Group at COP 16.