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Push for right to a clean, healthy environment

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Paris: Politicians, legal experts and activists will launch a campaign in Paris on Saturday for a global pact to protect the human rights to a clean, healthy environment.


The end goal, organisers said this week, is a legal treaty under which states can be brought to justice for flouting the rights of a group or individual.


The initiative comes just weeks after President Donald Trump announced that he would pull the United States out of the 196-nation Paris Agreement on curbing dangerous global warming.


The new pact, being blueprinted by top legal minds from several countries, should eventually be put to the United Nations for adoption, and impose legally-binding obligations on signatory states, its drafters say.


“We already have two international (human rights) pacts... The idea is to create a third, for a third generation of rights — environmental rights,” said French


judicial expert Laurent Fabius, who will chair Saturday’s meeting.


The earlier covenants — one for social, economic and cultural rights, the other for civil and political rights — were adopted by the UN in 1966.


— AFP


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