ERIC Number: EJ1448952
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-1090-1981
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Earth Rights for the Advancement of a Planetary Health Agenda
Catalina Correa-Salazar; Isabela Marín-Carvajal; María Alejandra García; Kathleen Fox; Mariana Chilton
Health Education & Behavior, v51 n6 p787-795 2024
This article discusses Earth's Rights as an environmental justice mechanism of reparation, protection, and justice for indigenous communities, environmental defenders, and other populations in Latin America. We argue that Earth's rights encompass and include the right to health and can be integrated into international human rights frameworks to protect all forms of life, responding to colonial legacies of discrimination and violence. We respond to the scarcity of literature discussing Earth's rights in relation to situations where human rights and Earth's rights are violated. We ground our argument in the theoretical conceptualization of Latin American proposals of Earth's rights and its potential for actionable policy approaches that include human health as inevitably interconnected to our planet's well-being. We address the environmental injustices that affect the right to health and argue that an Earth's rights framework can support reparations for historically marginalized communities.
Descriptors: Justice, Conservation (Environment), Health, Civil Rights, Colonialism, Violence, Racial Discrimination, Policy Formation, Disadvantaged, Guidelines, Conflict Resolution, Foreign Countries, Climate, American Indians
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Latin America
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