RECOMMENDATION
Adopt legislation for the protection of the environment and establish a joint private-public partnership to reduce the environmental impact of tourism on livelihoods and the rights to housing, safe drinking water, health and an adequate standard of life for its inhabitants
Recommendation No: 143.71
Recommendation Year: 2015
Recommendation Text: Adopt legislation for the protection of the environment and establish a joint private-public partnership to reduce the environmental impact of tourism on livelihoods and the rights to housing, safe drinking water, health and an adequate standard of life for its inhabitants
Convention/Treaty Body: Universal Periodic Review
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Attorney General's Office (AGO) | Ministry of Finance (MoF) | People's Majlis (PM) | Ministry of Tourism (MoT) | Ministry of Environment (MoEn) | Ministry of National Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (MoNPHI)
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22 - The State has a fundamental duty to protect and preserve the natural environment, biodiversity, resources and beauty of the country for the benefit of present and future generations. The State shall undertake and promote desirable economic and social goals through ecologically balanced sustainable development and shall take measures necessary to foster conservation, prevent pollution, the extinction of any species and ecological degradation from any such goals.
23 - Every citizen the following rights pursuant to this Constitution, and the State undertakes to achieve the progressive realisation of these rights by (b) clothing and housing; (c) good standards of health care, physical and mental; (d) a healthy and ecologically balanced environment; (e) equal access to means of communication, the State media, transportation facilities, and the natural resources of the country; (f) the establishment of a sewage system of a reasonably adequate standard on every inhabited island; (g) the establishment of an electricity system of a reasonably adequate standard on every inhabited island that is commensurate to that island.reasonable measures within its ability and resources: (a) adequate and nutritious food and clean water;
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