ADB Law and Policy Reform Program
Asian Development Bank

Human Rights and Environment

This webinar is a special in-depth session with Jonathan Liljeblad on Human Rights and the Environment. Jonathan has a PhD and JD, both from the University of Southern California, and a BS, from the California Institute of Technology. He was born in Myanmar, and grew up in Sweden and the US. He currently lives in Australia and works as a Senior Lecturer at Australian National University. He does field research on rule of law in Myanmar, and has published scholarship on human rights and environmental issues in Southeast Asia. He is a member of both the IUCN and ICOMOS.

This one hour session focuses on the following:

  • Framework Definitions and Principles
  • Example Rights
  • Legal Challenges