Andréa Paulus

📢 On 19 November, a key side event at the Palais des Nations will focus on children, youth & Aarhus rights, and the growing recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌿

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Maria Sibylla Merian—An Artist Who Changed Science Forever Read about Maria Sibylla Merian, a remarkable scientist, and artist who changed the way we view insects forever.

Maria Sibylla Merian—An Artist Who Changed Science Forever
by Nicole Ganbold for @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social
www.dailyartmagazine.com/maria-sibyll...

We have launched the Disability Arts History Australia website!
-Visit the Disability Arts History Australia website at: disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net
-Visit the Padlet to create a post with information for the Timeline about a person, event, and/or organisation padlet.com/bree_hadley/...

High-Level Panel on ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

📺 video-recording now available of conversation on #AdvisoryOpinion of International Court of Justice on #ClimateChange and its critical importance for #HumanRights

📺 tinyurl.com/3fsx6ybx

🌿 Join us, in person or online, along with my colleagues Special Rapporteurs Elisa Morgera and Pedro Arrojo

Two years after the @coe.int pledged action on human rights & the environment, it’s time to move past political statements.

At our @pace.coe.int side event, experts & leaders made it clear: Europe must start negotiations to legally protect the right to a healthy environment!

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UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes stresses that while right to #HealthyEnvironment is often undermined, advancing legal recognition & effective enforcement are priorities, where a key opportunity arises to understand and implement the legal obligations that states have.

📢 Call for Inputs | Clean Air 🌳
ALL INVITED to send your inputs for my 4° report!

With the objective of creating a further understanding of useful tools to include health impacts in environmental air pollution governance.

🗓Deadline: Oct 16th
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

Happening today ! 📣🌱

🔗Join us in Room 6 at Palais de l'Europe or via Zoom (no registration needed):
coe-int.zoom.us/j/6379361368...
Access code: 421303

Thinking Affect within Critical Disability Studies An online symposia from Spain on 2nd Oct , 2025

Please join us for another online symposium on October 2nd 12-1pm BST with Andrea Garcia-Santesmases, Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero, Javier Monforte from Spain!
sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Most people around the world believe climate change is real and caused by humans. What is even more surprising? Most people—including the authors of this blog post—mistakenly assume the number of people who believe #climatechange is real to be lower than it is in reality.

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The High Seas Treaty Represents a Turning Point for the Ocean - Truthdig With more than 60 countries on board, the new international law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean.

With more than 60 countries on board, the new international law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean.

Implementing the Climate Advisory Opinions in New York and Geneva – A Human Rights Approach | HRC60 Side Event This side event to the 60th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC60) will provide a platform for dialogue on how to integrate human rights-based approaches into implementing the advisory opinions, ...

🌍 Climate justice meets human rights at #HRC60

🚨 Don’t miss this pivotal side event: “Implementing the Climate Advisory Opinions: A Human Rights Approach”

📅 Tomorrow - October 1
📍 Palais des Nations, Geneva
🕝 2:30–3:30 PM CEST

📺 Join live: bit.ly/4gLKvrv

‘Doing justice to an artist no one knows is quite an undertaking’ The first exhibition devoted to the Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier has been a 25-year-long labour of love for its curator

A major survey of the 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier has just opened at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 2018, Katlijne Van der Stighelen wrote about curating the first ever exhibition dedicated to the Flemish artist

Quelles conséquences a le fédéralisme sur les #droitshumains en #Suisse ? Et quel rôle joue-t-il dans leur protection et leur promotion ?
Plus d'information sur cet axe thématique buff.ly/smXin8H

Reflecting on the rich discussion, UN @srenvironment.bsky.social Astrid Puentes highlights key points:

🔸 Importance of access to justice & tackling related challenges
🔸 Need to better coordinate & collaborate
🔸 Importance of science in litigation

Pendant of cut-paper work between two sheets of glass with St Anthony of Padua among trees, birds, animals and putti with an inscription. In a gold frame with a pendant loop.

An example of a cut-paper artwork by #JoannaKoerten, held by the @britishmuseum.bsky.social -

This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers? A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters

This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers? -
by Meilan Solly for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...

Still Life of Fish and Cat Oil on panel, 34.3 x 47 cm, by Clara Peeters, after 1620 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Still Life of Fish and Cat, by Clara Peeters, after 1620.
An abundance of fish and seafood, with a cat guarding its fishy treasure.
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#painting #cat #fish #flemish

Climate activist Niamh Purcell believes the @coe.int has one way to signal to young people it takes their demands for climate justice seriously.

Let's legally protect the right to a healthy environment, in a pledge for our shared humanity & future!

bit.ly/4nEpvFy

Join our Campaign & MP Aurora Floridia for a @pace.coe.int side event on why the @coe.int's protection of the right to a healthy environment matters!

🎤 Hear from @srenvironment.bsky.social @duycks.bsky.social ocial @saskiakluit.bsky.social it.bsky.social @sumarslan.bsky.social & more!

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Last June, Italian MP & @pace.coe.int member Aurora Floridia asked a critical question to the @coe.int Committee of Ministers:

❓Will European leaders finally launch the drafting of a legally binding instrument on the right to a healthy environment?

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“The climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency. It is also a democratic test. When science is ignored, people suffer.”

We couldn't agree more with @pace.coe.int President Theodoros Roussopoulos!

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Painting of a close-up of a white open flower with green foliage behind

Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 1932 #womensart

Rachel Ruysch show at Toledo Museum of Art is a banger.

Teen was told the crippling stomach pain she suffered was in her head - it wasn’t A leading vascular surgeon is angry and frustrated that patients like Amelia Turner are told their symptoms are eating disorders before a correct diagnosis is made.

How many young people suffer Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) or associated vascular compression syndromes? No treatment in Aotearoa NZ and little understanding by doctors. Story tells of 2 families fundraising for overseas treatment. I know others. Why no NZ help?
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/society/3607...

A graphic featuring a black and white photo of Johnnie Lacy on the left, wearing a button-up top and smiling at the camera. On the right, a quote in large purple text reads: “I have to have a sense of my own personal identity. And that sense is very much tied into who I am as a woman of color and as a disabled person, and I try not to distinguish between the three identities anymore.” Below the quote, in smaller purple text, is Lacy’s title: “Disability rights activist and founding member of the first Center for Independent Living.” In the bottom right corner is a blue box with the text “Disability Pride Month” in purple. In the bottom left corner is the ACLU logo in purple.

Johnnie Lacy, born in Arkansas in 1937, was a civil and disability rights advocate and a leader in the independent living movement, fighting for choice and accessibility.

We honor Johnnie and all who continue to speak out against discrimination and defend our right to live independent lives.

July is Disability Pride Month! This month, we recognize the contributions of the disability community and recommit ourselves to working towards a more inclusive society.

Joy in hard times: Celebrating Disability Pride Month amid crisis There's far more to disabled life than Republican attacks on disability rights.

There’s far more to disabled life than Republican attacks on disability rights.

For Disability Pride Month, I spoke to three disabled people about what brings them joy at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Disability is not a moral failing

It’s not something a person chooses, nor can they “try harder” out of it

Most of us will experience disability at some point in our lives

You can be born disabled, it can happen suddenly due to accident or illness or be the result of aging

It’s a part of life