COLOGICAL DIGNITY AS A REAFFIRMATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

This article aims to work on the transversal and complex theme that is the relationship between ecological dignity and human rights. As for human dignity, it has been tackled more vigorously since the Second World War when the world witnessed the extent to which the sense of humanity can decline. Currently, the study is quite evolved and practically all civilized countries mention the principle of human dignity in the core of the Constitutional Text. It is no different with human rights and its international reaffirmation occurred with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Although human rights have been the object of study and deepening for several years, the relationship with the environmental harvest is still incipient and little studied. Most studies face environmental law and human rights as something distinct and not unified. And this paradigm shift began to occur with the strengthening of the Socio-environmental State in Europe and later in Brazil. Understanding ecological dignity, as an aspect of human dignity and which emerged with the emergence of the Socio-Environmental State, is essential to conclude that environmental law is also part of the list of human rights, as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights stated in 2017.