Human Rights, Health and the Environment

Where human rights shape sustainable health and environmental action

 

 10 April 2026 | 10:00 - 11:30 CEST  Online


 

 Objective

This event provided an opportunity to explore how human rights standards, principles and monitoring mechanisms can support the objectives of the One Health approach, while ensuring the protection of human dignity, equity and participation. By analysing existing legal and policy tools, as well as relevant case law, the event highlighted ways in which a human rights-based framework can strengthen integrated and sustainable responses to complex health and environmental challenges.

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  Programme

10:00 - 10:10  Opening Remarks

  • Rafael Benitez, Director of Social Rights, Health and Environment, Council of Europe

10:10 - 10:20  Keynote Address

  • Sarah Barnier-Leroy, Chair of the Steering Committee on the Environment (CDENV), Council of Europe

10:20 - 10:25  How the right to live in a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment supports the objectives of the One Health approach

  • Wondwosen Asnake Kibret, Policy and Partnerships Coordinator, United Nations Environment Programme Europe Office

10:25 - 10:35  The role of the European Committee of Social Rights in recognising the link between health protection and a healthy environment

  • Tatiana Puiu, Vice-President of the European Committee of Social Rights

10:35 - 10:45  The Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation on Landscape and Health: highlighting the contribution of landscape quality to physical and mental well-being

  • Michael Oldham, Founding President of the IFLA EU International Federation of Landscape Architects Europe and former head of delegation from IFLA EU to the CDCPP and Council of Europe Landscape Convention

10:45 - 10:55  Strengthening integrated and sustainable responses to complex health and environmental challenges – Youth Perspective

  • Szymon Górny, Member of the Youth Scientific Advisory Board, Youth and Environment Europe; representative of M-Lab, Poland

10:55 - 11:30  Interactive Discussion

 Speakers

Back Tatiana PUIU

Vice President of the European Committee for Social Rights
Tatiana PUIU

Tatiana Puiu is an Attorney at Law in the Republic of Moldova and the Vice-President of the European Committee of Social Rights. Her professional experience in human rights and the rule of law spans legal, policy, and practical fields.

Tatiana has served as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organizations and bodies working on human rights issues, including the Council of Europe, OSCE, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), and (I)NGOs.

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