Climate Change
Q&A: The U.N.’s New Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Environment Previously Won a Landmark Case in Peru
Astrid Puentes Riaño, a Colombian lawyer based in Mexico City, is the first woman, and the first person from the Global South, to hold the mandate that links human rights, the environment and, by extension, climate change.
Just weeks before Astrid Puentes Riaño took over as the United Nations’ top expert on human rights and the environment, she reached a different kind of professional apex.