The right to a healthy environment between consecration and empowerment

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the nature of international recognition of the right to a healthy environment, and to highlight whether this right needs recognition or empowerment, within the modern trend towards empowerment of human rights, by employing the descriptive analytical method with the use of the inductive method in presenting the study problem . To make it clear that the legal enshrinement of the right to a healthy environment is considered incomplete due to the absence of an agreement explicitly sanctioning it; National recognition of it is a motive for adopting this agreement. In addition, the actual enjoyment of procedural rights is one of the mechanisms for enabling the right to a healthy environment.