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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management … the environment linkages, such as with respect to toxic waste, indigenous peoples rights, food, water and climate … youth (Article 5). Parties also have obligations regarding collection and exchange of information. Under Article 15, …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… N H U M A N R I G H T S A N D T H E E N V I R O N M E N T waste, transport, and financing. For example, under air and … of rhino in a national park, the unlawful disposal of waste, illegal cutting and collection of wood and driving in a coastal area without a …
UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015
… Governance 35 v. Sub-programme 5: Chemicals and Waste 32 vi. Sub-programme 6: Resource Efficiency 36 vii. … activities. 4. We commit to actively promote the collection, analysis and use of gender equality indicators … field of the environment. Sub-Programme 5: Chemicals and Waste Objective of the Organization: To promote a transition …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… Beginning in the 1970s with the increase of hazardous waste and concerns regarding illicit trafficking and dumping … Commission of Human Rights affirmed that dumping of toxic waste and dangerous products and wastes constitutes a serious … Rights.25 However, the transformation to merge the toxic waste mandate into a more generalized special rapporteur on …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… Canadian citizens alleged that the storage of radioactive waste near their homes threatened the right to life of … and agro-industrial activities may involve transport of waste and consequent impacts, as well as risks of explosions. … collaborated closely. The landfill project enhanced the collection of landfill methane gas, some of which will be …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… that illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous substances and waste potentially constitutes a serious threat to the human … including the operation of chemical factories and waste-collection sites. The Inter-American Commission on …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… of the environment, including air and water; pollution, waste, chemicals and other potentially harmful substances … the global climate, freshwater quality, marine pollution, waste, toxic substances, protected areas, conser- vation and … often become the sites of dispropor- tionate numbers of waste dumps, refineries, power plants and other polluting …
Water as a human right?
… for one’s private life and home. The case concerned a waste treatment plant, which caused health problems and … and 25,000 people dying of hunger every day?65 Why waste more time on academic debates on whether or not to … pollution is the result of the two million tons of human waste disposed of in watercourses every day.86 The human …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… water quality, air quality, hazardous substances and waste. For example, the dumping of radio-active waste at sea may result in harm not only to aquatic life but … of a reader that comprises all basic legal materials and a collection of the most leading environmental cases, can fill …