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The funds raised from the Royal Parks Half Marathon will be destined to support the Environment and Human Rights Division. As our generation faces serious environmental and social crises, the potential of the right to a healthy environment for progressive development and accountability cannot be understated. Its global recognition is long overdue. This right brings together the environmental dimensions of civil, cultural, economic, political, and social rights, and protects the core elements of the natural environment that enable a life of dignity. It will give those exposed to mercury in artisanal gold mines in the Philippines, those poisoned by soot in Piquiá de Baixo in northeastern Brazil, those contaminated by lead in Kosovo, and activists attacked for protecting their environment and lands, the tools and political leverage they need to defend their rights.