{"id":7671,"date":"2014-05-29T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:48:21","slug":"un-expert-urges-states-take-account-human-rights-obligations-environmental-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/?p=7671","title":{"rendered":"UN expert urges States to respect human rights obligations in environmental policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"UNOHCHR report on John Knox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14348&amp;LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nThe UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights reports that<\/a> John Knox, the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment has called on states to take obligations concerning the environment seriously: \u201cIt is now beyond argument that human rights law includes obligations relating to the environment,\u201d said John Knox, urging States \u201cto take these obligations into account in the development and implementation of their environmental policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Knox\u2019s appeal was issued during the presentation of his <a title=\"Report of IE on HR and Env\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/HRBodies\/HRCouncil\/RegularSession\/Session22\/A-HRC-22-43_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first comprehensive report<\/a> to the UN Human Rights Council on the human rights obligations relating to environmental protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights reports that John Knox, the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment has called on states to take obligations concerning the environment seriously: \u201cIt is now beyond argument that human rights law includes obligations relating to the environment,\u201d said John Knox, urging States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-posts","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2110],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16842,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/16842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}