Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being, and he bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and... Dictionary of Environmental Law - Page 294by Alan Gilpin - 2000 - 377 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works - 1971 - 604 pages
...conditions of life, in an environment of a ounMtv which permits n life of dienitv and well being, and bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve...generations. (In this respect, policies promoting or I>erpetuating apartheid, racial segregation, discrimination, colonial and other forms of oppression... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1972 - 100 pages
...the people and for their posterity. II , PRINCIPLES fttntex fhe common conviction that: Ì. (ex 1) Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality...that permits a life of dignity and well-being, and bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1975 - 560 pages
...feared they might be took con- ) trol of the agenda. The conference declared as its first principle : Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality,...conditions of life, in an environment of a quality which permits a life of dignity and well being, and bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve... | |
| 1976 - 414 pages
...particular interest of any government. In the words of Principle 1 of the Stockholm Declaration, "man . . . bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve...the environment for present and future generations". This idea has been applied in particular to issues of protection of the international commons — the... | |
| John Anthony Wade - 1980 - 348 pages
...particular country, the law of that country is applied. As far as maritime accidents 13. Principle 1: Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality...conditions of life, in an environment of a quality which permits a life of dignity and well being, and bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve... | |
| Meng Qing-Nan - 1987 - 280 pages
...protection and improvement of the human environment are treated as "the duty of all Governments", and man "bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations."23 In other words, the participants agreed that states have a duty to protect and improve... | |
| Dorothy V. Jones - 1991 - 242 pages
...in terms of the rights of human beings. As the first principle of the Stockholm Declaration put it, "Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality...environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being."30 In the atmosphere of openness to human rights concerns that prevailed after World War... | |
| A. S. Bilderbeek, Simone Bilderbeek, Ankie Wijgerde, Netty van Schaik - 1992 - 236 pages
...United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration, June 16, 1972): "Principle 1 Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life in an environment that permits a life of dignity and wellbeing, and he bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve... | |
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