<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
      http-equiv="Content-Type">
  </head>
  <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <br>
    Dear All,<br>
    <br>
    The announcement below, in relation to UN Human Rights Council
    resolution 16/11 of March 24, 2011 entitled, "Human Rights and the
    environment", may be of your interest.&nbsp; The timeline for submissions
    is quite tight -- June 10, 2011.<br>
    <br>
    Kind Regards,<br>
    <br>
    Dr. Marcos A Orellana<br>
    <br>
    Director, Human Rights and Environment Program<br>
    Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)<br>
    Adjunct Professor,<br>
    Washington College of Law American University<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <table class="MsoNormalTable" width="600" border="0"
        cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td style="width: 100%; padding: 0cm;" valign="top"
              width="100%">
              <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;"
                width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                <tbody>
                  <tr>
                    <td style="padding: 3.75pt;" valign="top">
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm;
                        margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0cm;
                        text-align: center;" align="center"><span
                          style="font-size: 18pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Civil
                          Society Section</span><span style="font-size:
                          18pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm;
                        margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0cm;
                        text-align: center;" align="center"><span
                          style="font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Office
                          of the United Nations High Commissioner for
                          Human Rights</span></p>
                    </td>
                  </tr>
                </tbody>
              </table>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td style="width: 100%; padding: 0cm;" valign="top"
              width="100%"><br>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td style="width: 100%; padding: 0cm;" valign="top"
              width="100%">
              <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;"
                width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                <tbody>
                  <tr>
                    <td style="padding: 3.75pt;" valign="top">
                      <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 4.5pt;
                        margin-left: 0cm; text-align: center;"
                        align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:
                            &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                            color: black;">Consultation&nbsp;- Human Rights
                            and the Environment</span></strong><span
                          style="font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 4.5pt;
                        margin-left: 0cm; text-align: center;"
                        align="center"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span
                          style="font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 4.5pt;
                        margin-left: 0cm; text-align: center;"
                        align="center"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><strong><span
                            style="font-family:
                            &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                            color: black;">Deadline for input 10 June
                            2011</span></strong><span
                          style="font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"
                        align="center"><span style="font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">Dear All,</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">The Office of the United
                          Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
                          would be grateful to receive any relevant
                          information for the preparation of a study on
                          the relationship between human rights and the
                          environment (see Background, below).</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">In particular, views and
                          information are welcome on:</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">1. Steps taken at national and
                          regional levels, including in the normative,
                          legislative and judicial spheres, to better
                          understand and address the relationship
                          between human rights and the environment; </span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">2. Views on the relationship
                          between human rights obligations and
                          environmental protection, including issues
                          related to international cooperation of States
                          in respect to global environmental harms (such
                          as climate change-related harms) and other key
                          areas of environmental policy such as
                          biodiversity, ecosystem services and
                          desertification;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">3. Relevant national, regional
                          and international lessons-learned and good
                          practices, including examples of how human
                          rights have been integrated in the design and
                          implementation of environmental and
                          sustainable development policies and measures,
                          and examples of the human rights impacts of
                          environmental disasters and of the responses
                          thereto; and </span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">4. Recommendations for future
                          areas of work in developing the normative and
                          policy framework for human rights and
                          environmental protection.</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">Please send information by 10
                          June 2011 to: </span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"><a
                            href="mailto:registry@ohchr.org"
                            target="_blank">registry@ohchr.org</a></span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">or fax. +41-22-917-9008</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">Please indicate whether the
                          information provided could be made available
                          on the OHCHR website. </span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align:
                        center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">***</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><u><span
                            style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                            &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                            color: black;">Background</span></u><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">United Nations Human Rights
                          Council resolution 16/11 of 24 March 2011
                          entitled, "Human Rights and the environment":
                          <a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=czh8asdab&amp;et=1105295405123&amp;s=2276&amp;e=001hn8LVQt1Tnnx3gDEi2fweQbB7296WTwojQ99WXLNwbAYCsIWC6P-zOvetW56VFPTYSuUkEU_mMSsdQc9b9j-rUsFTBiPp28AeJfKBX71x1U="
                            target="_blank">http://goo.gl/vVUA8</a></span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
                          font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The
                          resolution requested OHCHR "in consultation
                          with and taking into account the views of
                          States Members of the United Nations, relevant
                          international organizations and
                          intergovernmental bodies, including the United
                          Nations Environment Programme and relevant
                          multilateral environmental agreements, special
                          procedures, treaty bodies and other
                          stakeholders, to conduct, within existing
                          resources, a detailed analytical study on the
                          relationship between human rights and the
                          environment" (para. 1).</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p>
                    </td>
                  </tr>
                </tbody>
              </table>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span></p>
              <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%;"
                id="content_LETTER.BLOCK13" width="100%" border="0"
                cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                <tbody>
                  <tr>
                    <td style="padding: 3.75pt;" valign="top">
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align:
                        center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">***</span><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span
                          style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:
                          10pt; font-family:
                          &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
                          color: black;"></span></p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
                          font-family:
                          &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For
                          an unofficial translation into another
                          language you may try: <a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=czh8asdab&amp;et=1105295405123&amp;s=2276&amp;e=001hn8LVQt1Tnkv5mc58IL4qrwVITbAtrJLchyTh7M4KxWh-fTrnt8r00TqWVlpSfpxD9QhLEoBtShLQirqD3f3yfux2k-KqItcfJDcMK9qz2cF5aNNQHpByw=="
                            target="_blank">http://translate.google.com</a></span></p>
                    </td>
                  </tr>
                </tbody>
              </table>
            </td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
  </body>
</html>