Human Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messages

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
dc.contributor.organizationPolicy and Programme Division
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-20T12:00:38Z
dc.date.available2020-08-20T12:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionThe COVID-19 crisis reveals a clear truth about catastrophic risk in an increasingly globalized world: an effective response requires immediate, ambitious and evidence-based preventive action at the international level. To avert future global threats, including pandemics, we must protect rights to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment upon which we all depend for our health and wellbeing. A human rights-based approach to the COVID-19 crisis is also needed to address its unequal impacts on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized and its underlying drivers, including environmental degradation. The following key messages on human rights, the environment and COVID-19 highlight essential human rights obligations and responsibilities of States and others, including businesses, in addressing and responding to the COVID-19 crisis.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/33510
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageArabic
dc.languageChinese
dc.languageFrench
dc.languagePortuguese
dc.languageRussian
dc.languageSpanish
dc.page.number5 pages
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectzoonotic disease
dc.subjectenvironmental health
dc.subjecthuman rights
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectenvironmental protection
dc.subjectrule of law
dc.subjectenvironmental law
dc.subjectmedical waste
dc.subjecttoxic waste management
dc.subjectharmful product
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectHuman Rights
dc.subjectIllegal Trade in Wildlife
dc.subjectNatural Resources
dc.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No Poverty
dc.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
dc.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on Land
dc.subject.sdgSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.subject.themechemistry
dc.subject.themechemical pollution
dc.subject.themenatural areas
dc.subject.themelandscape
dc.subject.themeecosystems
dc.subject.themeadministration
dc.subject.themeenvironmental governance
dc.titleHuman Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messagesen
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dc.title.alternativeDireitos humanos, meio ambiente e COVID-19: Mensagens-chave: Direitos humanos no centro da respostapt
dc.title.alternativeLos derechos humanos, el medio ambiente y la COVID-19 - Mensajes clave: Los derechos humanos en el centro de la respuestaes
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