Ocean Degradation Puts Human Rights at Risk, Urgent Action Needed to Protect Marine Ecosystems | Science-Environment

Ocean Degradation Puts Human Rights at Risk, Urgent Action Needed to Protect Marine Ecosystems | Science-Environment

Ocean Degradation Puts Human Rights at Risk, Urgent Action Needed to Protect Marine Ecosystems Ocean degradation poses severe risks to human rights globally, notably threatening the fundamental right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, stated Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on environmental human rights.In her recent address to the Human Rights Council, Puentes Riaño emphasized that declining marine health directly enda…

Ocean degradation threatens communities and affects human rights around the world, including the right to a healthy environment, a UN independent expert warned the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Degradation worsens inequalities Astrid Puentes Riaño, Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Clean Environment, […]