The Connection Between Sustainability and the International Court of Justice through the case of Cellulose Plants

Abstract

Aim: To relate the International Court of Justice with sustainability. To highlight the importance of fulfilling the Economic, Social and Cultural rights and the Rights of Third Generation for all human beings.Methodology: The paper contains the definition of sustainability and doctrine about the International Court of Justice and human rights. To conduct the research, the methodological technique of documental investigation is applied. Furthermore, there is a deep analysis of the case of the ICJ about Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay of Argentina V. Uruguay, where the concepts mentioned before come together and relate between each other.Findings: It was revised how the definition of sustainability is related with the decision taken by the International Court of Justice in the case Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay Argentina V. Uruguay. The question about how the ICJ relates to sustainability in this case study, can be answered by discovering if the economic, cultural and social rights are considered, as well as the Rights of Third Generation, when the Court decides in the case example. In the judgment of Argentina V. Uruguay, the Court did not have enough proof from the environmental report to check if there was contamination and if the plants were harming the environment.Value: It is important to determine how the juridical organ of the United Nations substantiates the importance of sustainability, Rights of Third generation and economic, social and cultural rights. Moreover, this is relevant in a world that it so contaminated and with the big alarm of global warming threatening humanity.