The Judiciarys Law Journal

The Judiciarys Law Journal

The Child's Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment and Relevant Obligations in the Passage of New International Legal Trends

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

Author
Mahya Saffarinia
Imam Sadiq University
10.22106/jlj.2024.2026317.5879
Abstract
Normative and regulatory development of protection of vulnerable groups, including children, in international human rights is being strengthened in a gradual process. Analyzing what new developments this subject of international law has undergone to protect children in the field of responding to the devastating environmental challenges and climate change is of great importance. The present research, citing international first-hand sources and the method of describing and analyzing the content of international documents and library data, has tried to clarify that the right of children to enjoy a healthy, safe and sustainable environment has been established in the international human rights system in recent years and based on the principles Certain rights have been relied on during the past 5 decades, the obligations towards governments and other actors, including commercial and industrial activists, have been specified for this right, and ensuring the observance of this right in international judicial and quasi-judicial channels has been accompanied by various developments. The current research draws the attention of all national authorities including judges to the developments in the field of children's right to the environment and emphasizes that the necessary preparations should be made at the national level to respect this right with the participation and role-playing of children themselves while pursuing the legitimate concerns of developing societies, including Iran, at the global level, so as to have beneficial consequences.
Keywords
Children's Rights
Environment
International Instruments
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Sustainable Development
Subjects
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The Judiciarys Law Journal
Volume 88, Issue 125
Summer 2024
Pages 37-75

  • Receive Date 12 April 2024
  • Revise Date 17 August 2024
  • Accept Date 10 June 2024
  • First Publish Date 10 June 2024
  • Publish Date 21 May 2024