Abstract
The increasingly frequent occurrence of environmental disasters and natural resources degradation jeopardize the quality of life of humankind and, in some cases, prevents people from remaining in their places of origin. The context fo the present article is the crescent concern with people that abandon their homes, motivated by environmental changes that render the place they live inadequate for human survival. In this sense, the article has the objective to verify if and under which circumstances the global Refugee protection system is applied to Environmentally Displaced Persons, filling the absence of rules regulating their situation and ensuring their Fundamental Rights. Accordingly, it is highlighted the necessity to build a specific protection system to Environmentally Displaced Persons that guarantees an effective protection to people in that condition.
Highlights
The present article has the analysis of a new category — the Environmentally Displaced Persons — as
The alarming increase in environmental disasters and environmental resources degradation generates a deep concern in the global scenario1
There are more than 33 million refugees, refuge requesters, internally displaced persons and other persons who have abandoned their home, risking their own lives, freedom and security, in the attempt to flee from Persecution for reasons relating to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion
Summary
The alarming increase in environmental disasters and environmental resources degradation generates a deep concern in the global scenario. The article is organized as follows: first, it is presented the regime adopted by de 1951 Convention for Refugees, highlighting the operational definition of that and they suffer without an effective and directed action from the international community to ensure their fundamental rights As it is spotlighted by the preamble of the Convention Project Relating to the International Statute of Environmentally Displaced Persons, from the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Droit de l’Environnement, de l’Aménagement de de l’Urbanisme (CRIDEAU):. Environmental Refugee: any person who, owning to well-founded fear of Environmental Persecution that compromises his/her existence and/or seriously affects his/her quality of life, is forced to leave his/her country of nationality, temporarily or permanently, and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself/ herself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his/her former habitual residence is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it
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