Os direitos humanos e a proteção aos migrantes ambientais frente aos riscos e desastres ecológicos

Abstract

The present work develops a study concerning the humanitarian consequences as far as environmental degradation is concerned, as well as the attention given to it by the international community over the last years. Thus, it observes, particularly, the interaction between the impact of both risks and natural or technological environmental disasters and the human migratory movements within the countries or abroad, which have been little explored and studied so far. It also analyzes the quest for a legal system of international cooperation of the countries aiming at the protection of the human rights of these populations which are forced to flee due to environmental causes, granting themselves access to the basic human rights such as , life, health, housing and human dignity, among others. From that, and considering the existence of environmental problems associated to the human migration, this work examines that environmental risks are not equitably distributed, therefore professing the Environmental Rights Movement. Factors as the poverty associated to the vulnerability of populations and entire communities are in the core of this risk distribution. Owing to that, the exposure of vulnerable people to environmental risks and disasters contribute to a greater feasibility for human rights violation. This essay holds as challenges to analyze the relation among environment, risks, environmental disasters and human migration caused by ecological risks and disasters.