Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
This essay explores the implications of the right to a healthy environment for the long-standing criticisms of international human rights law as a project and product of the Global North. It examines the Southern origins of the right to a healthy environment and its interpretations in regional human rights tribunals. The essay analyzes the responses offered by this evolving jurisprudence to various objections to human rights-based approaches to environmental protection. These include the human rights-based framework’s individualism, anthropocentrism, failure to address transboundary harm, and failure to challenge the economic law instruments that perpetuate environmental degradation.
Recommended Citation
Carmen G. Gonzalez, The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Global South, 117 AJIL Unbound 173 (2023).
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