Landmark vote on right to clean environment

ON Oct 8, 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world, passed Resolution 48/13, which recognised for the first time that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.

When the world is facing an existential crisis, with the masses having poor access to clean air and water, and safe living conditions, and in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change crisis, this resolution, which has been hailed as a landmark decision, must be applauded.