OEA/Ser.G
AG/RES. 1819 (XXXI-O/01)
5 June 2001
Original: Spanish
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on
June 5, 2001;
subject to review by the Style Committee)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING that the international community continues to
discuss the importance of the possible link between human rights
and environmental protection, as expressed in the 1972
Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment (Stockholm Declaration), the 1989 Hague Declaration,
the 1992 United Nations Declaration on Environment and
Development (Rio Declaration), and other international
instruments on the subject;
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the work done in this field by the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social
Council; and
BEARING IN MIND:
The human rights enshrined in the American Convention on
Human Rights and in other human rights instruments, in
particular, the Additional Protocol to the American Convention
on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, "Protocol of San Salvador"; and
That the effective enjoyment of all human rights, including
the right to education and the rights of assembly and freedom of
expression, as well as full enjoyment of economic, social, and
cultural rights, could foster better environmental protection by
creating the conditions that promote modification of behavior
patterns that lead to environmental degradation, reduction of
the environmental impact of poverty and of patterns of
unsustainable development, more effective dissemination of
information on this issue, and more active participation in
political processes by groups affected by the problem,
RESOLVES:
1. To underscore the importance of studying the link that may
exist between the environment and human rights, recognizing the
need to promote environmental protection and the effective
enjoyment of all human rights.
2. To request the General Secretariat to conduct, in
collaboration with other organs of the inter-American system, a
study of the possible interrelationship of environmental
protection and the effective enjoyment of human rights.
3. To instruct the Secretary General to report to the General
Assembly at its thirty-second regular session on the
implementation of this resolution.
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