To browse Academia. It outlines the historical development of the RHE, its connections with other human rights, and the need for effective legal frameworks to implement these rights globally.
The paper highlights the importance of recognizing the RHE in diverse international legal instruments and emphasizes the implications of environmental degradation on human rights, particularly vulnerable populations, advocating for sustainable development as integral to securing this right.
This paper contains an analysis of developments in international and national human rights law on the links between human rights and the environment, as submitted to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in respect of her analytical study. This paper, submitted by the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists NJCM as input for the study, puts forward the argument that currently there are a number of links established and recognized in respect of human rights and the environment, i.
Overall - on the basis of an analysis of current human rights case-law available at the European level specifically and an elaborate research of constitutional provisions on the right to a healthy environment nationally, both annexed to the paper - the authors specifically emphasize the importance and viability of pursuing an internationally recognized right to a healthy environment, and support a new mandate for a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment.
An independent expert was appointed by the UN in It was undoubtedly the largest United Nations conference ever organized, with more than 30, participants from countries, including heads of state or government assembled for the concluding 'Earth Summit'. At the very least, the Rio Conference marked, in the words of Indonesia's Minister of Population and Environment, 3 'a loss of innocence': henceforth no government can plead ignorance to the challenges that we face as a planet As the Secretary General of the Conference had already pointed out at the opening of the preparatory process in March , these challenges have now reached the level of global security risks, 4 an assessment confirmed by post-Rio appraisals.
