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Abstrak :
Since the Stockholm Declaration of 1972, the principles of environmental legal principles fundamentally changed the formulation of new international environmental law. The formulation of environmental legal provision was significantly influenced by a scientific approach, such as ecological and environmental concepts. The role of international environmental law is increasingly greater on the ecological approach rather than on the general principles of international law. The structure of international environmental law is also changed related to, among others, state responsibility, states rights and obligations, and the rising of the eco-rights and the animal rights that fundamentally changed the customary international law approach into new progressive development of international environmental law. Through ratification, the national environmental law has been significantly improved, and there is a growing recognition of the integrated system of national environmental law and international environmental law.

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Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment around the world. Because they can be transported by wind and water, most POPs generated in one country can affect people and wildlife far from where they are used and released. They persist for long periods of time in the environment and can accumulate and pass from one species to the next through the food chain. To address this global concem, many countries in the world joined forces with 90 other countries and the European Community to sign a groundbreaking United Nations treaty in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2001, known as the Stockholm Convention. One of important agreement is all countries agreed to rduce or eliminate the production, use, and/or release of 12 key POPs. The convention specifies a scientific review process that could lead to the addition of other POPs chemicals of global concem. POPs include a range of substances thet include intentionally produced chemicals currently or once used in agriculture, disease control, manufacturing, or industrial processes. Also it can be produced by unintentionaly produced chimicals, such as dioxins, that result from some industrial processes and from combustion (for example, municipal and medical waste incineration and backyard buming of trash).

Abstrak :
Environmental issue become more popular since the Stockholm Conference about the human environment and Rio de Janeiro Summit (Earth Summit), that bring brings so many changes in environmental matters. Human rights that has the important role in international law, is also related to the environmental issue. As an Indonesian Environmental NGO, WALHI tries to protect the human rights related to environment. This article tries to discuss the relation between the environmental rights with human rights and why WALHI has concern on it.