Human rights and the environment, para. 20

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2. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the relationship between children’s rights and environmental protection,3 in which he examined the increasing international attention to the relationship between children's rights and the environment, the severe effects of environmental harm on the rights of children, human rights obligations relating to children’s rights in the environmental context, the relationship of future generations and children’s rights, and makes recommendations aimed at increasing respect, protection and fulfilment of the rights of children in relation to the environment;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2018
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
Human rights and the environment, Human Rights Council Resolution, 2018.
Paragraph number
20