On Thursday, April 23, in an open letter to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the leading global conservation partnership, BirdLife International, marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by calling on the UN to take a bold and unprecedented step: declare a healthy natural environment a fundamental human right.
The letter, calls on the UN, as part of its response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, to add an “Article 31” to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — enshrining a universal right to a healthy natural environment, guaranteed by public policies, governed by sustainability and by scientific and traditional indigenous knowledge.
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