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Report on the International Conference on Human Rights and the Environment (Tehran, May 13–14, 2009) and its Tehran Declaration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2009

Janet Blake
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law and UNESCO Chair of Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, University of Shahid Beheshti(Tehran) and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Dundee (UK). Email: blake.chrpd@gmail.com

Extract

The International Conference on Human Rights and the Environment took place in Tehran in May 2009 and was attended by around 150 participants, including 10 international and five Iranian speakers. It was conceived as an opportunity to bring together leading international experts in this field to seek greater clarity on the important but, as yet, under-conceptualised question of the nexus between human rights and the environment. Both in the papers presented and in the resulting Declaration text, cultural heritage was seen as a key element in both aspects of this nexus and as fundamental to achieving a suitable accommodation between the two.

Type
Conference Reports
Copyright
Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2009

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