Environmental Degradation and Crisis of Human Rights

Abstract

Environmental protection and human rights are interconnected interrelated and interdependent responding to the sustainability of human lives. A healthy environment is a precondition for the enjoyment of human rights across the world, but unfortunately, this linkage has not been ignored by the Governments. Environmental destruction caused by people leads to the violation of human rights. It adversely affects people, natural resources, ecosystems and also physical structure. Sudden onset events posing threat to human lives lead to environmental degradation, inaccessibility to clean water, food shortage, drought, and flood. Human rights are universal legal guarantees of fundamental freedoms and entitlements based on the inherent dignity and equal worth of all the individuals, which cannot be waived off or taken away but by disturbing ecological balance, human beings themselves pose threat to biodiversity and create adverse conditions for them. Therefore it becomes obligatory for the governments and international organizations to respect, promote Human rights -including the rights to life, self-determination, development, food, health, water, and sanitation by protecting Environment and biodiversity.