Transboundary shipment of toxic waste and its impact on human rights

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
10th session
02 March – 27 March 2009

[Excerpt from the statement]

The Special Rapporteur devoted his report submitted to the present session to the dismantling of ships, which has posed many problems over the years1. The response to this issue has been the recent adoption by the International Maritime Organization of the International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. Like many other environmental conventions, the above-mentioned Convention also has shortcomings. As the Special Rapporteur has analysed these shortcomings, we will not dwell on them.

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