THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MIGRANTS: ACTIVITIES OF UNITED NATIONS’ ORGANS, PROGRAMMES, AND AGENCIES

The article examines and analyzes the work of the UN Organs, Programmes and Agencies in solving the problem of protecting the rights of environmental migrants. It demonstrates the gradual recognition at the international level of the fact that it is necessary to protect the rights of people forced to migrate to safe and habitable areas in conditions of climate change (the rights of environmental migrants). Despite the fact that climate change has not been recognized as a factor directly in fl uencing migration and that the climate change is considered only in conjunction with other causes (economic, political, social, etc.), the UN Organs, Programmes and Agencies are working on research and recognition of the negative impact of the climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights. The author suggests that such work of the UN system will help to form and consolidate the international legal status of environmental migrants and subsequently to solve the problem of the environmental migration.

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