Research for Proposing Incorporation of Environmental Human Rights Principles to Foster Environmental Protection in Nigeria

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainul Jaria Maidin ◽  
Abdulkadir Bolaji Abdulkadir
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Human Rights

scholarly journals Structural analysis of the national ombudsman activities in ensuring environmental human rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 05023
Author(s):  
Mikhail Olenev
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Ecological Situation ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Environmental Human Rights

In this article, the author examines the organization of the activities of the national ombudsman (Human Rights Commissioner in the Russian Federation) to ensure human rights in the field of ecology, conducts a structural analysis of the received applications from citizens on environmental issues, and also makes a number of proposals to improve the activities of the ombudsman. Based on the results of the study, the main topics of citizens’ appeals regarding violations of the rules for the environment use and abuse of environmental human rights submitted to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation were identified. The identification of borderline points by the national ombudsman requires attention in the field of environmental protection of citizens and giving them a public discussion, allows to focus the attention of society and the state on the most problematic aspects of ensuring human rights in the field of ecology, which helps the responsible state authorities to build their work more effectively in this direction, since the state of nature, environment and the ecological situation ultimately affect the development of both individual citizens and society and the state as a whole.

A Cartography of Environmental Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 1043-1070
Author(s):  
Louis J. Kotzé ◽  
Erin Daly
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environmental Human Rights ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter presents a cartography of environmental human rights, with particular emphasis on the current and potential contribution of human rights in augmenting global environmental protection and justice. It first provides a short account of the relationship between human rights and the environment, including the increased popularity of human rights as environmental protection measures, and explains the reasons the convergence between them. It then considers the historical milestones in the development of environmental human rights, along with the different manifestations of the rights-based approach (substantive political environmental rights, socio-economic environmental rights, procedural environmental rights, substantive right to a healthy environment, and rights of nature). Specific examples in international, regional, and domestic law where these forms of the rights-based approach occur are given. The chapter concludes with a discussion of three overarching criticisms of environmental human rights, one of which asserts that rights-based approaches have been ineffective in securing human rights.

Part VII Inter-linkages with Other Regimes, Ch.45 Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knox John H
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Environmental Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Norms

This chapter examines the relationship between human rights and the environment, which has developed through the adoption and interpretation of many different national constitutions and laws, human rights treaties, and multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). The development of what might be called ‘environmental human rights law’ has occurred in three main channels. First, efforts to achieve recognition of a human right to a healthy environment, while ineffective at the UN, have achieved widespread success at the national and regional levels. Second, some multilateral environmental instruments have incorporated human rights norms, especially rights of access to information, public participation, and remedy. Third, human rights tribunals and other monitoring bodies have ‘greened’ human rights law by applying a wide range of human rights to environmental harm. The chapter explains each of these paths of development before sketching potential lines of further development through recognition of the rights of nature and of future generations.

Vulnerable in Nature

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hiskes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
Adult Human ◽  
Environmental Human Rights ◽  
Special Priority

This chapter conceptually links children’s human rights with environmental human rights. Environmental rights initially belong to future generations because they are uniquely vulnerable to environmental harms perpetuated by those living today, and consequently belong to living generations through “reflexive reciprocity.” Children in fact represent the first, “living” future generation. Therefore they share environmental rights with future generations. Those rights are uniquely “emergent” in nature for both children and future persons; they emerge at the group level. They are also rights that take special priority over adult human rights, based on the vulnerability of both children and future groups.

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