حماية البيئة و الأمن الدولي

Abstract EN

The human right to a healthy and clean environment is considered one of the third-generation rights that are based on joint cooperation nationally, regionally and internationally, contemporary environment problems it has become a priority for issues the international community cares about, and the United Nations in particular, for it negative reflection on international peace and security.

After the failure of traditional mechanisms for protection, the urgent need for protecting the environment emerged criminally, and that is through the criminalization of acts damaging the environment, and enshrining criminal responsibility for it, and working to include environment crimes within substantive jurisdiction international Criminal court, despite what this step entails from risks to the sovereignty of weak states.