Clean healthy and sustainable environment a universal right

Subject – Environment

Context – Clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal right: UN Human Rights Council

Concept –

The United Nations Human Rights Council October 8, 2021, unanimously voted for recognising a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a universal right in Geneva, Switzerland.
If recognised by all, the right would the first of its kind in more than 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
The right to a clean environment was rooted in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration. It was greatly encouraging to see it formally recognised at the global level five decades later.
The resolution emphasises “the rights to life, liberty and security of human rights defenders working in environmental matters, referred to as environmental human rights defenders.”

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