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World Charter for Nature

World Charter for Nature

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World Charter for Nature was adopted by United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 member nation-states on October 28, 1982. It proclaims five "principles of conservation by which all human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged." The vote was 111 for, one against (United States
United States
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), 18 abstentions.

See also

  • Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
    Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
    The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, or Stockholm Declaration, was adopted June 16, 1972 by the United Nations at the 21st plenary meeting as the first document in international environmental law to recognize the right to a healthy environment.- External links...

     (16 June 1972)
    • [A/35/141 Annex I]

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