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Specialist Group Chair :
Alejandra Rabasa
Goals of the Specialist Group
- Generate, compile and share knowledge, among IUCN members and other interested practitioners, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, scientists, academics and advocates, on challenges, opportunities and strategies to advance towards effective compliance and fair enforcement of environmental law;
- Provide input to the IUCN and other relevant international and national stakeholders on avenues to strengthen policies, regulations and other legal resources focused on enhancing compliance and enforcement to prevent, minimize, and redress environmental risks or damages and environmental rights violations;
- Follow-up on the developments and support the initiatives of key institutions and networks like the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment, working to create, consolidate and strenghten capacities of judges, prosecutors, legislators and officials, to effectively enforce environmental law and protect environmental human rights and access rights;
- Provide updated, culturally adequate, and substantive knowledge and legal input to individuals and communities, specially from the most vulnerable sectors of society, interested in the enhancement of compliance and enforcement of environmental laws and policies; as well as addresing and redressing environmental injustice;
- Promoting and enabling a permanent dialogue and interaction among scientific and legal institutions and experts, to inform the fair and effective implementation of environmental legislation, particularly among judges and prosecutors;
- Advance legal perspectives of compliance and enforcement through publications, conferences, events and other capacity-building opportunities.
Alejandra Rabasa
Alejandra Rabasa is a Mexican lawyer with 20 years of experience working in areas related to Environmental Law and Human Rights. She currently leads the recently created research agenda on Environmental Law and Justice at the Center of Constitutional Studies, the academic wing of Mexico´s Supreme Court of Justice. Alejandra was Director of Judicial Education and Director of the Inter American Program at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). Prior to joining ELI, Alejandra worked in different capacities for the Federal Ministry on the Environment and Natural Resources in Mexico, including General Counsel of the National Commission of Protected Areas. Alejandra holds a Law Degree from the Iberoamerican University in Mexico and a Master Degree in Sciences of Sustainability from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she is currently conducting PhD studies in the same field. She is a member to the Directive Board of Mexico´s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Biodiversity and Environment (CeIBA). Her research and work priorities are focused on environmental adjudication; environmental justice and specific standards for non-discrimination; the interaction between science and the law, and effective compliance with and enforcement of environmental and human rights law.
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