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The Protection Of Environmental And Human Rights: An Applied Study Of The Human Right To Live In A Healthy And Clean Environment, Ahmed Salahaldeen Balto Dr.

UAEU Law Journal

This research explores the hypothesis of using international human rights law to protect the human right to live in a healthy and clean environment, and four legal methods will be addressed to attempt to achieve it, which are integrating environmental aspects into the current human rights system, formulating a new objective right to live in a clean and healthy environment, litigations of public interest, and justice between generations. This will be clarified by referring to some case-law from the European Court of Human Rights, and various national judicial authorities([1]). The main conclusion of this research is that human …