It demonstrates that accepted environmental and human rights principles embody the right of everyone to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment. The Draft Declaration describes the environmental dimension of established human rights, such as the rights to life, health and culture. It also describes the procedural rights, such as the right to participation, necessary for realization of the substantive rights. Part I 1. Human rights, an ecologically sound environment, sustainable development and peace are interdependent and indivisible.
All persons have the right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment.
This right and other human rights, including civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, are universal, interdependent and indivisible. All persons shall be free from any form of discrimination in regard to actions and decisions that affect the environment. All persons have the right to an environment adequate to meet equitably the needs of present generations and that does not impair the rights of future generations to meet equitably their needs. Part II 5. All persons have the right to freedom from pollution, environmental degradation and activities that adversely affect the environment, threaten life, health, livelihood, well-being or sustainable development within, across or outside national boundaries.