1. 1.14 International Law: Principles and Rights
Law enforcement
1.14 International Law: Principles and Rights
Lydia Slobodian

2. International Law: Principles and Rights
Principles and human rights.

3. International Law: Principles and Rights
Customary international law: legally binding outside the context of a particular convention.

4. International Law: Principles and Rights
“the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.”

5. International Law: Principles and Rights
“the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.”
Principle 21. Stockholm Declaration of 1972

6. International Law: Principles and Rights
“Where there are threats of serious irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”

7. International Law: Principles and Rights
“Where there are threats of serious irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992

8. International Law: Principles and Rights
Principle of intergenerational equity

9. International Law: Principles and Rights
HUMAN RIGHTS
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

10. International Law: Principles and Rights

11. International Law: Principles and Rights
Human
rights
Conservation

12. International Law: Principles and Rights
ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS
“any activity, whether public or not, in which the right to life may be at stake”

13. International Law: Principles and Rights
ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS
“any activity, whether public or not, in which the right to life may be at stake”
“where environmental contamination and degradation pose a persistent threat to human life and health”

14. International Law: Principles and Rights

15. International Law: Principles and Rights

16. International Law: Principles and Rights
Rights related to access to information, public participation and access to justice.

17. International Law: Principles and Rights
Rights related to access to information, public participation and access to justice.
Obligations to meet minimum standards for environmental quality.