Book contents
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Catalyst for Change
- 3 Learning from Constitutional Environmental Rights
- 4 The Right to a Satisfactory, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment in the African Regional Human Rights System
- 5 The European Court of Human Rights and International Environmental Law
- 6 Complexities and Uncertainties in Matters of Human Rights and the Environment
- 7 Reasoning Up
- 8 In Search of a Right to a Healthy Environment in International Law
- 9 A Human Right to a Healthy Environment?
- 10 Quality Control of the Right to a Healthy Environment
- 11 The Politics of Human Rights, the Environment, and Climate Change at the Human Rights Council
- 12 The Malé Formulation of the Overarching Environmental Human Right
- 13 Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime
- 14 The Right to a Healthy Environment and Climate Change
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Right to a Satisfactory, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment in the African Regional Human Rights System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2018
Book contents
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Catalyst for Change
- 3 Learning from Constitutional Environmental Rights
- 4 The Right to a Satisfactory, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment in the African Regional Human Rights System
- 5 The European Court of Human Rights and International Environmental Law
- 6 Complexities and Uncertainties in Matters of Human Rights and the Environment
- 7 Reasoning Up
- 8 In Search of a Right to a Healthy Environment in International Law
- 9 A Human Right to a Healthy Environment?
- 10 Quality Control of the Right to a Healthy Environment
- 11 The Politics of Human Rights, the Environment, and Climate Change at the Human Rights Council
- 12 The Malé Formulation of the Overarching Environmental Human Right
- 13 Human Rights in the Climate Change Regime
- 14 The Right to a Healthy Environment and Climate Change
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The protection of the environment is an essential part of human rights protection in Africa and of Africans’ social, cultural, and religious life for many generations. Environmental rights are recognized at the African regional level as explicit treaty norms, with normative unity with other rights and corresponding obligations. However, Africa continues to be characterized by various environmental concerns including continuous degradation of the environment, which has a negative effect on human rights. Hence, concerns relating to the environment rank highly in national and regional priorities. This chapter considers the right to a satisfactory, healthy and sustainable environment in the African regional human rights system, with particular focus on its normative development, its nature and content (including its normative unity with other rights), the correlating obligations, and enforcement (specifically by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights) in cases of violations.
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- The Human Right to a Healthy Environment , pp. 59 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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