Health and Human Rights - The Human Cost of Environmental Neglect
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Every year, environmental crises affect millions of people around the world causing sickness and decimating lives and livelihoods. When environmental degradation garners international attention its impact is often framed in terms of harm to nature. But another, often overlooked, way to understand a toxic spill or a mining disaster is in terms of its impact on human rights—not least the right to life, to health, and to safe food and water. (...)
The article:
http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2013/lives-balance
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Links Between Health and Environment in Focus at Major UN Youth Conference:
http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2704&ArticleID=9390&l=en
"Healthy people in a healthy environment":
http://www.ourplanet.com/pdfs/Tunza_Env_and_Health.pdf
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