Human Rights, the Environment and COVID-19 - Key Messages: Human Rights at the Heart of Response

The COVID-19 crisis reveals a clear truth about catastrophic risk in an increasingly globalized world: an effective response requires immediate, ambitious and evidence-based preventive action at the international level. To avert future global threats, including pandemics, we must protect rights to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment upon which we all depend for our health and wellbeing. A human rights-based approach to the COVID-19 crisis is also needed to address its unequal impacts on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized and its underlying drivers, including environmental degradation. The following key messages on human rights, the environment and COVID-19 highlight essential human rights obligations and responsibilities of States and others, including businesses, in addressing and responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
Other Authors:	Policy and Programme Division
Format:	Briefs, Summaries, Policies and Strategies biblioteca
Language:	English Arabic Chinese French Portuguese Russian Spanish
Published:	2020
Subjects:	COVID-19, ZOONOTIC DISEASES, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, POVERTY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, RULE OF LAW, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, MEDICAL WASTES, TOXIC WASTE MANAGEMENT, HARMFUL PRODUCTS,
Online Access:	https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/33510
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