Wiki For Human Rights with Wikimedia UK
Wiki For Human Rights Contest 2023
Right to a healthy environment
05 May - 30 May, 2023
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WikiForHumanRights 2023: Right to a Healthy Environment[edit]
The aim of the #WikiForHumanRights campaign is to make sure that everyone has access to neutral, fact-based, and current information around our Right to a Healthy Environment. The right to a healthy environment is a legal right acknowledged by the UN, but also a way of connecting human rights and the triple planetary crisis we face: climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. As the UN Environmental Program highlighted: we need to make Peace with Nature, and human rights need to be at the center of the solutions.
The role of Wikipedia has never mattered more than now. Everyone everywhere needs access to information about how climate change or environmental degradation impacts their lives. We can increase knowledge about the healthy natural systems upon which all people rely for the water they drink, the air they breathe, the food they eat, and the resources they need. With #WikiForHumanRights this year, we are focusing on how local communities are impacted by the most pressing environmental issues in their context including the triple planetary crises identified by the UN of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Information plays a critical role in our shared ability to not only understand these interconnected crises but also mitigate the causes and adapt for a healthy future for all. Fulfilling the human right to a healthy environment empowers those most affected by environmental harms such as pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss to defend the environment, participate in decision-making, and access justice and human rights protection. Filling gaps on Wikipedia about these topics, helps the public make the thousands of decisions needed to address these pressing environment crises.
Scope[edit]
We encourage you to write on Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikiquote) about:
- Environmental defenders
- Legal systems or treaties about human rights and environmental rights
- Communities advocating for the protection of their environment
- Health or social consequences of communities denied access to a healthy environment
- Topics that connect the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution to the human impacts
- Other topics connected with the right to a healthy environment
The list of the Wikis that are counted in the scoring/judging can be seen on the dashboard.
Topics in Focus[edit]
When addressing the right to a healthy environment, the UN focuses on addressing the Triple Planetary Crises which includes:
- The importance of environmental justice, climate justice, and human rights centered approaches to local, national, and international action on the climate crisis
- Human wellbeing in the face of environmental damage caused by pollution, with a focus on the direct impact on other human rights (i.e. pollution and health, right to water, etc)
- Biodiversity and human rights — understanding how human wellbeing is dependent on a biodiverse natural ecosystem
Introduction meeting[edit]
Register for the introduction meeting to learn more about the contest and ask questions.
Date: May 4, 2023 06:00PM (UTC+01:00)
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdO6opzkoHtzY83mD-EL3C1S-w-o5vPCl
How to register[edit]
To join this contest please register on the dashboard: JOIN DASHBOARD HERE
Judging and scoring process[edit]
The winners will be identified through the dashboard according to the highest number of edits in relevant topics. The list of the Wikis that are counted in the scoring/judging can be seen on the dashboard.