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Professor of Medical Ethics and author THOMAS KERNS shows how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its two related internationally adopted documents - the Convention on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - can form an effective context for environmental activists' campaigns. He outlines three strategies for organizers to follow and points to the effectiveness or California's Stop the Spray movement as a model. Prof. Kerns is the author of ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED ILLNESSES: Ethics, Risk Assessmennt and Human Rights. His college level philosophy course, Environment and Human Rights is on-line at http://environmentandhumanrightscourse.info/ He is the founder of the EHRA - Environment and Human Rights Advisory, a consulting service for environmental organizations and government agencies. http://environmentandhumanrights.org/

• Release Date

  May 12, 2009

• Runtime

  14:23