The New Global Pact for the Environment

AuthorElena Loredana Pirvu
Pages5-17
JURIDICA
5
Studies and Articles
Elena Loredana PÎRVU 1
Abstract: On 19 September 2017, the UN General Assembly in New York informed everyone that it
was to present the project of a Global Pact for the Environment, before the Heads of State and
Governments, representatives of civil society, the private sector, etc. of the 193 Member States of the
organisation, in the presence of UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres, President of the French
Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius2, and French President Emmanuel Macron. If adopted, this pact
(Moroianu Zlătescu, 2017) comes to complement the legal edifice of fundamental human rights norms,
created by René Cassin3, consolidated by Karel Vasak4 by creating the three generations of rights5, each
of them having thus its own pact. (First generation, civil and political rights, second generation,
economic, social and cultural rights, third generation, right to peace, development and the
environment).
Keywords: rights; Global Pact; Environment; international treaty
1 Associate Professor, PhD, Police Academy Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania, Address: Aleea
Privighetorilor no. 1-3, Bucharest, Romania, Tel.: 0213175523, int. 17311, Corresponding author:
loredana.pirvu@yahoo.com.
2 Former Prime Minister of France and Paris Agreement/COP21 President.
3 First laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, main author of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
4 PhD professor Karel Vasak, legal advisor t o the Council of Europe (1969-1976). He edited Les
dimensions internationales des droits de l’homme (1978) and co-edited Les dimensions universelles de
droits de l’homme, (1990), both published under the aegis of UNESCO.
5 The classification of human rights into the three generation was first proposed in 1977-1979, when
Karel Vasak was first Secretary-General of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
He was also Director of the Division of Human Rights and Peace of UNESCO, and later on, Legal
Advisor to UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization. First generation, civil and political rights,
second generation, economic, social and cultural rights, third generation, right to peace, development
and the environment.
AUDJ, Vol. 15, No. 1/2019, pp. 5-17
The New Global Pact for the Environment

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