Human Rights Approach to Environment Protection: An Appraisal of Bangladesh

Abstract

The need for effective protection of the global environment is nowadays incident. National and international communities search for instruments as effective as potential to stop or rather slow the destruction of the environment. While the predominant human rights approaches to environmental protection are currently based on public regulation by imposing duties, there have been a new human rights approach emerging based on each individual’s right to a certain quality of environment, which supposes connections between environmental protection and human rights. The well-established national and international systems of human rights guarantees have been increasingly used as an effective instrument for environmental protection. The purpose of this article is to introduce current National and International approaches to the links between human rights and environmental protection and examine how these human rights approaches are applied in the Bangladesh.

Keywords: Right to a healthy and sound environment, human rights, protection, Legislation.