Is the Environment a Human Rights Issue?

Coal Mining and Human Rights: Initiating The Right To a Good and Healthy Environment as Non-Derogable Right

“…It is hardly necessary to explain it, because environmental damage can damage and weaken all human rights that have been stated in the Universal Declaration and other human rights instruments (Anton and Shelton, 2008). In other words, engaging in activities that have a major impact on environmental damage that causes human life to be disturbed is a violation of human rights.…”