International Journal in Management & Social Science
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3

Depleted Uranium Violates Human Right in the Environment

  • Author:
  • Aqila Hadi Issa1, Harlida Abdul Wahab2, Nor Anita Abdullah3
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 321 to 333

1Lecturer with the Technical Institute for Administration, Foundation of Technical Education, Ministry of Higher Education, Republic of Iraq

2PhD candidate, School of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara, Malaysia

3School of Law, College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara, Malaysia

Online published on 15 March, 2019.

Abstract

This paper discusses the violation of the weapon of depleted uranium against the human right in the environment. The international conventions concerning human rights and its basic freedoms do not only involve the rights provided by the majority of the constitutions such as the right of human in health, the right to possession, the right to work, the right to sue, and the right to set a meeting, but now they are also providing other new kind of rights like the right of enjoying a clean and appropriate environment. This study will be conducted through doctrinal approach; data will be collected through secondary source by examining the contribution of scholars in the field of law. The current research will try to clarify that the weapon of depleted uranium violates human right in the environment due to its dangerous impacts on the human and environment.

Keywords

Weapons of Mass Destruction, Depleted Uranium, Environment, Human Right