HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIAN REGION: ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY IN A LEGAL SCENARIO

Asia is developing region in the world. The economic conditions in this region are still in poverty and also including much environmental degradation with negative effects on human well being. This paper explains about the developments in between human rights and environment from the legal point of view in the Asian Region. The paper also explains about the procedural aspects of human rights and case laws and the environment decisions that affect them, and the question of access to justice through the courts and other mechanisms. However despite the inadequacy of the Environmental legal frameworks in some countries, particularly in South Asia and South East Asia, the courts have nevertheless been able to achieve significant environment outcomes by using national and constitutional provisions focused on basic human rights, especially right to life. The paper briefly explains constitutional provisions that included references to various kinds of environmental rights and briefly examines the Jurisprudence of human rights and environment in several Jurisdictions to illustrate this phenomenon. All human beings depend on the environment in which we live. A safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is integral to the full; enjoyment of a wide range of human rights. There is a well aware of the recognitions of the links between human rights and the environment. The scope of national and international laws, Judicial decisions, Human Rights machineries has been growing rapidly NHRC and several Judicial decisions like Stockholm 1972 declaration etc., has made a tremendous changes in Environmental policy.