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The modern era is characterized by a triple planetary crisis: climate change, loss of biodiversity, and environmental pollution. These global processes not only directly threaten the ecosystems of the planet, but also have a profound, increasingly dramatic impact on the enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms. The right to life, health, an adequate standard of living, housing, water, food, and the cultural identity of vulnerable communities are all directly dependent on the state of the environment. In these circumstances, the protection of environmental human rights ceases to be a peripheral topic and becomes one of the key areas of development of both international human rights law and international environmental law.
The workshop offered to the reader's attention is the result of a systematic understanding of a new, dynamically developing area of legal practice and doctrine – the "greening" of human rights. Its purpose is not only to present the cases to the reader, but also through their detailed analysis to identify emerging legal standards, procedural barriers and conceptual shifts taking place in international judicial and quasi–judicial bodies.
The book is structured in the logic of a multi-level system of international human rights protection. The first section examines the practice of universal bodies, primarily the UN Human Rights Committee, which has become a platform for breakthrough solutions that establish a link between climate change and the right to life, as well as between toxic pollution and the right to life and the right to respect for privacy. Special attention is paid to innovative, though not always successful, attempts to protect children's rights in the context of the climate crisis through the mechanisms of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The second section is devoted to regional experience, demonstrating both general trends and specific approaches. The article analyzes the evolution of the law enforcement practice of the European Court of Human Rights, which, despite the absence of the right to a favorable environment in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, has formed a significant body of "environmental" practice through an expanded interpretation of articles 2, 8 and others. The article examines the bolder and more conceptually formulated approaches of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which recognized the right to a healthy environment as an autonomous human right, as well as the practice of the African Human Rights Protection System.
Of particular value, in our opinion, is not just the presentation of solutions, but their problem-oriented analysis. Each case is accompanied by tasks encouraging the reader to critically evaluate the arguments of the parties, the validity of the legal positions of the courts, and predict the consequences of the decisions taken for future disputes.
This workshop is a collective effort that brings together scientists and practitioners who are convinced that law must adequately respond to the challenges of the time. It is addressed to future and current lawyers, human rights defenders, environmentalists, and international experts – all those who are ready to plunge deeply into the complex but extremely important process of forming legal means to protect human dignity in the era of anthropogenic impact on the planet.
We hope that this book will serve not only as a textbook, but also as an incentive for further research, discussion and, ultimately, for more effective legal protection of both humans and their environment.