The (In)Applicability of the Statue of Refugees to Environmentally Displaced Persons

• Autor(a) principal: ANTUNES de Souza, Maria Claudia Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: de Melo Prado, Lucas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Direito Internacional
• Texto Completo: https://www.publicacoesacademicas.uniceub.br/rdi/article/view/2619
• topic: Refugee. Environmentally Displaced Person. Environmentally Persecuted Person. Environmental Refugee. Environmental Persecution.

The increasingly frequent occurrence of environmental disasters and natural resources degradation jeopardize the quality of life of humankind and, in some cases, prevents people from remaining in their places of origin. The context fo the present article is the crescent concern with people that abandon their homes, motivated by environmental changes that render the place they live inadequate for human survival. In this sense, the article has the objective to verify if and under which circumstances the global Refugee protection system is applied to Environmentally Displaced Persons, filling the absence of rules regulating their situation and ensuring their Fundamental Rights. Accordingly, it is highlighted the necessity to build a specific protection system to Environmentally Displaced Persons that guarantees an effective protection to people in that condition.