The Right to a Clean, Safe and Healthy Environment Under the African Human Rights System
Although no universal human rights treaty expressly guarantees the right to a clean, safe and healthy environment, the majority of such treaties regard a hygienic environment as a precondition for the enjoyment of, for example, the rights to life, health,
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Edited by Michael Addaney · Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law
Michael Addaney Ademola Oluborode Jegede Editors
Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law
Editors Michael Addaney Research Institute of Environmental Law Wuhan University Wuhan, China
Ademola Oluborode Jegede Department of Public Law University of Venda Thohoyandou, South Africa
University of Energy and Natural Resources Sunyani, Ghana
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Foreword
This book on Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law is a timely publication. Africa and its people depend on the environment for their well-being and survival. The African continent’s biodiversity and cultures are unique in the world and Africa includes some of the last wilderness areas in the world. Unfortunately, that is also Africa’s downfall as its rich mineral and biological resources are exploited by non-Africans and multi-nationals. The Global North prescribes measures for the Global South that are not always implementable within an African context. In the end it is the people that suffer and their human rights that are trampled upon. Africa has other challenges too, such as failed governments, increased urbanization, poaching, climate change as well as climate-induced migration, to mention a few. This is a book on African environmental governance by Afric
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