UN rights body: Right to clean environment is a human right

GENEVA — The United Nations’ main human rights body has overwhelmingly voted to recognize the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right, and to appoint an expert to monitor human rights in the context of climate change.

The Human Rights Council passed the clean-environment resolution, which also calls on countries to boost their abilities to improve the environment, by 43-0 while four member states -- China, India, Japan and Russia — abstained. Lucy McKernan, deputy director for U.N. advocacy at Human Rights Watch, called the clean-environment measure a “significant advance” to help address the global environmental crisis.

“Global recognition of this right will help empower local communities to defend their livelihoods, health, and culture against environmental destruction, and help governments develop stronger and more coherent environmental protection laws and policies,” she said.

The United States Government and the State Of Michigan has violated Flint, MI.'s Human Right by allowing General Motors to contaminate the living environment and drinking water, for generations. It's time to hold them accountable.

That’s good.

First of all, the inside of their organizational structure needs to be clean.

The United Nations of Japan has made isolated children even more excluded and sexual slaves in Japan. They are treated as people with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and mental and physical disabilities. I am also a victim.

日本国の国際連合は日本国内で孤立児をさらに排斥児にし、性奴隷にしています。彼らは発達障がい者、知能障がい者、心身障がい者として扱われています。私も被害者です。

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Eye. I got an eye on China just creating more coal plants. What’s the UN going to do about that?

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