Mezinárodní ochrana práva na příznivé životní prostředí: přínos zvláštního zpravodaje OSN pro lidská práva a životní prostředí

The thesis deals with international protection of human rights and the environment. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the contribution of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment. The contribution is first assessed in the context of efforts to clarify the relationship between human rights and the environment. The thesis then focuses on the contribution in the area of individual enforcement of the right to an environment of a particular quality within the United Nations. This is based on comparison of individual communications from the communication databases of human rights treaty bodies and the Human Right's Council special procedures. The main contribution of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment is in the development of international human rights and environmental law, including clarification of the relationship between human rights and the environment and promotion of adoption of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right within the United Nations. The Special Rapporteur plays an important role in international human rights standards monitoring, as it provides victims of human rights violations with access to the international individual mechanism of protection.