Movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and waste
- Author: UN Commission on Human Rights (46th sess. : 1990 : Geneva)
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Date:
6 March 1990
1990/43. Movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and waste
The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling its resolution 1989/42 of 6 March 1989, Taking into consideration General Assembly resolution 42/183 of 11 December 1987, Taking into account the Final Act of the Basle Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, adopted on 22 March 1989, Aware that the Group of African States which participated at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries at Basle did not sign the Convention of 22 March 1989, Noting that resolution 1225 (L) adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity at its fiftieth session, held at Addis Ababa from 17 to 22 July 1989 (A/44/603, annex I), reaffirmed the position taken by the Group of African States that participated at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries at Basle, Reaffirming that the movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products endanger basic human rights such as the right to life and the right to the highest attainable standard of health, including in its environmental aspects,1. Requests the United Nations Environment Programme to enter into negotiations with the Organization of African Unity so as to find global solutions to the problem of the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the result of the negotiations between the United Nations Environment Programme and the Organization of African Unity to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-seventh session and to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at its forty-second session.
52nd meeting6 March 1990
[Adopted by 31 votes to none, with
11 abstentions. See chap. XIV.]
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