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  2. Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human ...

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    An Intergovernmental Working Group was established in the committee's second session. The consensus was for the Declaration to be "inspirational and concise", and to be easily comprehensible by the public as a means for education, public awareness, and community participation to protect the environment. [7]

  3. United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

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    The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during June 5–16, 1972.. When the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene the 1972 Stockholm Conference, taking up the offer of the Government of Sweden to host it, [1] UN Secretary-General U Thant invited Maurice Strong to lead it as Secretary-General of the Conference, as the Canadian diplomat ...

  4. Habitat I - Wikipedia

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    The Declaration states that "adequate shelter and services are a basic human right" and that "governments should assist local authorities to participate to a greater extent in national development". The Declaration strongly emphasizes that "the use and tenure of land should be subject to public control".

  5. Three generations of human rights - Wikipedia

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    Third-generation human rights are those rights that go beyond the mere civil and social, as expressed in many progressive documents of international law, including the 1972 Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and other pieces of generally ...

  6. Right to development - Wikipedia

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    The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, also known as Rio Declaration or the G.R.E.G, recognizes the right to development as one of its 27 principles.. Principle 3 of the Declaration states "The right to development" must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet developmental and environmental needs of present and future generati

  7. California officials detail Trump funding freeze 'chaos ...

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    California officials overseeing other public health and safety programs raised similar fears after being locked out of funding for a range of environmental and infrastructure projects, including ...

  8. Public security - Wikipedia

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    Public security or public safety is the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety and security of the public from significant danger, injury, or property damage. It is often conducted by a state government to ensure the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against ...

  9. Precautionary principle - Wikipedia

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    The concept "precautionary principle" is generally considered to have arisen in English from a translation of the German term Vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s in response to forest degradation and sea pollution, where German lawmakers adopted clean air act banning use of certain substances suspected in causing the environmental damage even though evidence of their impact was inconclusive at that ...