Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the EnvironmentHuman Rights Watch, 1992 - 106 pages Brazil: rural violence and the rainforest; Eritrea: a war on the environment; India: before the deluge; Kenya: environmental heroine or "traitor"? Malaysia: an unholy alliance; Mexico: cutting through the haze; Philippines: a dangerous environment for activists; The former Soviet Union: a poisonous legacy; United States: punishing whistleblowers. |
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Page vii - Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level. At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities, including information on hazardous materials and activities in their communities, and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes. States shall facilitate and encourage public awareness and participation by making information widely...
Page 28 - If any person having in his possession or control any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place...
Page vii - Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature.
Page 28 - Innumerable citizens live in fear of their own, or their children's, right to education being withdrawn if they should ever speak up in accordance with their convictions. Any exercise of the right to 'seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print...
Page 27 - Act on the ground that information with respect thereto, or the destruction or obstruction thereof, or interference therewith, would be useful to an enemy...
Page 23 - These abuses appear to be part of an increasingly repressive campaign by the state governments involved to prevent the groups from organizing support for protests in villages affected by the dam and disseminating information about the social and environmental consequences of the dam".
Page v - We have laid waste and soiled the rivers and the forests that our forefathers bequeathed to us, and we have the worst environment in the whole of Europe today.
Page 6 - The World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987). 4. Sir Shridath S. Ramphal, "Endangered Earth,
Page vi - Representatives of nearly every country, including numerous heads of state and scores of ministers, will meet in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
Page 16 - All the dry grass was burned and rows of trees were down from the tanks. The planes never stopped coming. They were dropping different types of bombs including napalm and at times the valley was so filled with smoke you couldn't even see. "On the road...