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#WikiForHumanRights 2023: Right to a healthy environment

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WikiForHumanRights2022

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Introduction

The aim of the #WikiForHumanRight campaign is to make sure that everyone has access to neutral, fact-based, and current information around our Right to Healthy Environment. The Right to a healthy environment is both a legal right acknowledged by the UN, but also a way of connecting human rights and the triple planetary crisis we face of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. As the UN Environmental Program highlighted: we need to make Peace with Nature, and human rights needs 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.

Information plays a critical role in our shared ability to not only understand these interconnected crises, but to 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.

Who is involved?

You can be involved! We need Wikimedians and Wikimedia affiliates, activists and advocates, experts, and partners who care about the public knowledge crises. If you are new to the community, join an event to learn how to edit! If you are an experienced editor, we encourage you to join our global writing contest If you are a Wikimedia organization or partner we need help organizing activities that encourages curation of stories and content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms. We encourage organizers to think about how the right to healthy environment cutting across these three environmental crises: Climate change, Pollution, and Biodiversity.

The campaign is organized by Wikimedia Foundation in partnership with the UN Human Right Council and UN Environmental Program