CONTENT OF HUMAN RIGHT TO FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT IN GENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW

Abstract

INTRODUCTION The concept of international human environmental rights has been maturating gradually, as international cooperation practices of states in the field of conservation and rational use of natural resources accumulated and, in fact, as the theory and practice of international human rights protection advanced. The natural result of a gradual development of international legal commitments of states in the environmental sphere was formation of the right to a favorable environment as one of the fundamental international human environmental rights 1 . The modern doctrine of international law indicates that a general international consensus has been achieved only in regard to four kinds of environmental rights to: а) favorable environment; b) access to environmental information; c) public participation in environmental decisionmaking; and d) access to environmental justice 2 . These rights are regarded as a generally recognized international legal framework for a subsequent broad-scale development of the entirety of international human environmental rights. Thus, apart from the above-mentioned rights, the following rights are also identified: to health; to access to fresh water; property right to natural resources, etc 3 . The right to a favorable environment is a fundamental subjective human right. As А. М. Solntsev notes, its place in the system of human