UN experts on Wednesday denounced the decision by Belarus to withdraw from an international agreement that upholds people’s right to access information, as well as justice, in environmental matters.
The Aarhus Convention, adopted in 1998, also requires that individuals exercising these rights are not persecuted, penalized or harassed for doing so.
🇧🇾#Belarus: UN experts denounce withdrawal from Aarhus Convention, an international agreement that implements the human right to a clean, healthy & sustainable #environment.
UN News Release.
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