Wiki for rights to healthy environment in Rwanda 2022

The aim of the #WikiForHumanRight campaign is to make sure that everyone has access to neutral, fact-based, and current information around our Right to Healthy Environment. The Right to a healthy environment is both a legal right acknowledged by the UN, but also a way of connecting human rights and the triple planetary crisis we face: climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. As the UN Environmental Program highlighted: we need to make Peace with Nature, and human rights need to be at the center of the solutions.

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WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment 2022

The role of Wikipedia has never mattered more than now. Everyone everywhere needs access to information about how climate change or environmental degradation impacts their lives. We can increase knowledge about the healthy natural systems upon which all people rely for the water they drink, the air they breathe, the food they eat, and the resources they need. With WikiForHumanRights this year, we are focusing on the implications of the right to a healthy environment on humans experiencing the intersecting three planetary crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Information plays a critical role in our shared ability to not only understand these interconnected crises but also mitigate the causes and adapt for a healthy future for all. Fulfilling the human right to a healthy environment empowers those most affected by environmental harms such as pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss to defend the environment, participate in decision-making, and access justice and human rights protection. Filling gaps on Wikipedia about these topics, helps the public make the thousands of decisions needed to address these pressing environment crises.

The Right to a healthy environment

• The importance of environmental justice, climate justice, and human rights centered approaches to local, national, and international action on the climate crisis
• Human wellbeing in the face of environmental damage caused by pollution, with a focus on the direct impact on other human rights (i.e. pollution and health, right to water, etc)
• Biodiversity and human rights — understanding how human wellbeing is dependent on a biodiverse natural ecosystem

Contest details in Rwanda

The project aims to make awareness of the fundamental rights to a healthy environment in Rwanda focusing on impact biodiversity on people, through a writing contest on English,French &Kinyarwanda Wikipedia

Prizes

1st Prize ($100)
2nd Prize ($80)
3rd Prize ($70)
4th price ($60)
5th Prize ($40)
Note : All will be provided in voucher cards & awards

TIMELINE

1Oth.March.2022 to 3oth May 2022.

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  An aerial of Nyabarongo River from Nyungwe National Park to River Nile. Emmanuel Kwizera

List of Topics in Wiki for rights to healthy environment and biodiversity in Rwanda 2022

Topic	Place	Case study	Comment
Clean air	Rubavu	Nyiragongo	Effects on quality air after Nyiragongo volcanic eruption
Safe climate	Common	common	Climate change (Effects of agricultural seasons changes)
Healthy food	Country wide	Ifumbire	Effects of industrial feritizers on quality food
safe water	Kigali	Kigali waste water	inadequate sewage systems
Human wildlfe conflicts	Nyabihu	Bigogwe	Human rights and conflicts with animals
Illegal fishing	Karongi	Lac Kivu	gupfa kw amafi
Tree cutting	common	common	Gishwati as a case study where the deforastoration once reached more than 90%
Non toxic environement	Gikondo	Industrial relocation	Industrial Park relocation
Healthy ecosytem and biodiveristy	Nyandugu	Nyandungu park restoration	Nyandungu park where biodiversity and ecosystem restoration initiatives are conducted
Soil degration	common	common	in Rwanda as case study where a specific case have to be identified
forest landscape restoration	common	common	in Rwanda as case study where a specific case have to be identified
Natural forests protection	common	common	In Rwanda small natural forests are in need of special protection
Responsible Tourism	Musanze	Musanze model village	Promote human rights in exproprietion exercises
International collaboration	Musanze	Ellen de Generes	mountain Gorilla conservation and biodiversity loss quantification
Human resettlement	Nyaruguru	Munini tea plantations	Promote human rights in exproprietion exercises
Human resettlement	Bugesera	Mazane and Sharita case study	Promote human rights in exproprietion exercises
Amarebe	Bugesera	Water toxic	Effects of these plants on fishing
Swamps protection , resettlement	Kigali	Case of resetlement	Promote human rights in exproprietion exercises
Development plans	Country wide	Integration of these topics in the plans	Integration of these topics in the plans
Road consruction	Nyanza	Bugesera nyanza road construction	Biodiversity Loss
Rwanda Green fund	Kigali	Innovation in biodiverity protection financing
Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, RWC	Nyamagabe	Non government organisations in this field
Umusambi village (Kinyarwanda)	Country wide	Biodeverity protection
Gishwati-Mukura reforestation	Nyabihu	Reforestation case study
Green Gicumbi	Gicumbi
Relocation of white rhino to Akagera national park	Kayonza
Lions return to Akagera national park	Kayonza
Bamboo cultivation in Rwanda	Country wide	Their contribution in soil conservation
Rubaya community gene bank	Gicumbi
Rwanda Mountain gorillas conservation	Musanze
Gishwati national park chimpanzee protection	Nyabihu
Nyandungu Urban Wetland Ecotourism	Kigali
Green Amayaga	Ruhango	Greening initiatives
Urugezi (Kinyarwanda)	Burera	Case study of effects of drying versus Ntaruka hydropower plantation
Nyungwe forest national park bird species	Nyamasheke	Bird species
Revenue sharing to local communities surrounding national parks	Country wide	Rights to healthy environment applications
Kigali City wetlands relocation	Kigali
Vulture protection in Rwanda	Kigali
Shoebill (Tourism & protection)	Kigali
Birdwatching in Rwanda	Country wide
Iminyorogoto (Kinyarwanda)
Uducurama (Kinyarwanda)
Public smoking	Kigali		Human rights and Pollution
Acoustic pollution	Kigali		Human rights and Pollution
Gender balance in rights to healthy environment			Environement , human rights and gender balance
Youth envolvement in rghts to healthy environement			Youth , environement and human rights
Marginilized groups versus rights to healthy environement
Guturitsa intambi
Waste management and biodiversity

2022 Winners

1. UWIMPUHWE Va
2. MrTallBoy
3. Endikuemmy
4. Alice.Mukesh
5. Germain92

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