This information sheet introduces:
• The negative impacts of ocean plastics on children’s human rights to life, survival, health, physical integrity, and development;
• The substantive and procedural obligations of States to protect
children’s rights in the context; and
• The responsibility of business to respect children’s rights in this context.
Children’s human rights and ocean plastics
Elisa Morgera and Sophie Shields
One Ocean Hub, University of Strathclyde, UK
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- private sector
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- Policy makers,
- Researchers,
- Students,
- Teachers
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- English
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Ocean plastics, a form of marine pollution, undermine the protection of several human rights but there are particular concerns for children’s human rights.