Michel Forst

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“If members of the public cannot complain to the police without fear that the alleged perpetrator will get access to their confidential police complaint, this will have a serious chilling effect”

🔔 Weekly updates on complaints
🇫🇷 Complaint ACSR/C/2023/11 (Switzerland) (closed) - Concerns the alleged penalization of Carlos Choc, environmental journalist in 🇬🇹

🎥 Carlos Choc’s testimony www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2z_...

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🔔 Weekly updates on complaints
🇫🇷 Complaint ACSR/C/2023/7 (France) (closed) - Concerns the alleged penalization of Jérôme Kozic, environmental defender who participated in a peaceful protest in 🇫🇷

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🔔 Weekly updates on complaints

🇫🇷 Complaint ACSR/C/2023/3 (France) (closed) - concerns the alleged penalization of Elsa Souchay, environmental journalist for @reporterre.net, in France.

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📣 NEW - Launch of a series of publications on complaints

Starting tomorrow, I will launch a series of publications on complaints received that are public, and on new complaints that I receive as they arise.

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ℹ️ Reports - now available in Russian ℹ️

1️⃣ Complaints & activities 👉 shorturl.at/lWN0y

2️⃣ Consultations with environmental defenders 👉 shorturl.at/x4Zyg

3️⃣ Key trends and threats 👉 shorturl.at/pbYBS

💡 For other versions & languages of these reports, see here 👉 unece.org/environmenta...

Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience - Now available in Russian

RUS 👉 shorturl.at/k48v0
FRA 👉 shorturl.at/0zfTp
ESP 👉 shorturl.at/jPNrB
ENG 👉 shorturl.at/9KJVb

#AarhusConvention #EnvironmentalDefenders #PeacefulProtest #CivilDisobedience

YouTube video by Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders Environmental defender's testimony: Carlos Choc's experience with the mandate (ESP w/ ENG subtitles)

📸 Testimony from an environmental defender: Carlos Choc's experience with the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #AarhusConvention

🎬 Watch Carlos Choc's testimony:
🇪🇸 🇬🇧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2z_...
🇪🇸 🇫🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=72FP...

Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience - Available French&Spanish

🇫🇷 👉 shorturl.at/0zfTp
🇪🇸 👉 shorturl.at/jPNrB
🇬🇧 👉 shorturl.at/9KJVb

#AarhusConvention #EnvironmentalDefenders #PeacefulProtest #CivilDisobedience

📨 The first 2026 edition of my monthly newsletter is out!
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📨 The first 2026 edition of my monthly newsletter is out!
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🚨 🇳🇴 Concerning developments - Norway - Supreme Court judgments - right to peaceful environmental protest - prison sentences imposed on environmental defenders

👉 Read my full statement here: unece.org/sites/defaul...

#EnvironmentalDefenders #AarhusConvention #PeacefulProtest

Cover page of a document titled “Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience.” The title is displayed in bold black and green text on a white background. Below, the author is listed as Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention, with the date October 2025. On the right side of the image, a photograph shows people at a protest, including a person holding a sign in German reading “Dein Planet, Deine Wahl” (“Your planet, your choice”).

In October 2025, the Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention @michelforst.bsky.social published guidelines on the right to peaceful environmental protest & civil disobedience. (1/2)
unece.org/sites/defaul...

📣 Newsletter - Launching tomorrow!

📆 Tomorrow I will release the first edition of my newsletter. Each month, it will provide an overview of my work as Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders.

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« Les “outre-mer” ne doivent plus être exclus de la Charte sociale européenne »

🗺️ Arbitrary long-term detention has become one of the cruelest tools to silence human rights defenders. Around the world, women and men who protect communities, land, and freedoms are jailed on fabricated charges, after unfair trials and under abusive conditions – sometimes paying with their lives.

❗ With @srenvironment.bsky.social @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @SRapporteurFOAA.bsky.social @michelforst.bsky.social we are issuing a statement on international #HumanRights standards on #CivicParticipation at #COP30

We remain available to support inclusive conversations with all concerned

🔴 Live in the European Parliament: “Rights, Risks & Resilience – Strengthening Protections for Environmental Defenders”

⚠️ Across Europe, defenders are standing up for our planet, often at great risk

🌍 Today we discuss how to transform concern into concrete commitments that truly protect defenders

Pour @michelforst.bsky.social, dans @mediapart.fr, "Les infractions pénales caractérisées [révélées par les vidéos] appellent des poursuites judiciaires contre les responsables [...]. Elles exigent une remise en cause profonde des doctrines de maintien de l’ordre en France."
#ViolencesPolicières

A relire effectivement à la lumière des vidéo révélées par @mediapart.fr et @liberation.fr

🔔 Report on key trends and threats
📣 This report outlines key trends & makes recommendations to Parties to @UNECE #AarhusConvention for the protection of #EnvironmentalDefenders
👉 Full report ENG official unece.org/sites/defaul...
& reader-friendly unece.org/sites/defaul...

🔔Report on complaints and activities
💡 Info & data on complaints received & activities undertaken as Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders
👉 Full report ENG – official unece.org/sites/defaul... & reader-friendly unece.org/sites/defaul...

#UNECE #AarhusConvention

🔔 Report on regional consultations with environmental defenders
🌎 10 consultations
📣 Key challenges & threats for #EnvironmentalDefenders
👉 Full report ENG official unece.org/sites/defaul... & reader-friendly unece.org/sites/defaul...
#UNECE #AarhusConvention

NOW OUT: Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience

📝 A set of Guiding & Operational Principles for the effective protection of peaceful #EnvironmentalProtesters

👉 Full Guidelines (English): unece.org/sites/defaul...

#UNECE #AarhusConvention

POSTPONED: Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience

⏱️ The long awaited Guidelines have to wait a bit more. Sometimes things can go unexpectedly, even for Special Rapporteurs. Hopefully you will read them with even more interest - stay tuned!