Environmental (in)justice and human rights

a reading about environmental refugees

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to address the relationship between environmental (in)justice and human rights based on the concept of environmental refugees. Such issues are related to the positioning of the State in the face of environmental conflicts involving populations denominated as "environmental refugees" in Brazil. We understand that forced human displacement for environmental reasons is nothing new in terms of research, since much has been discussed about the lack of legal, social and political support for these people. To this end, the text is organized in three parts: in the introduction, we will bring a brief overview of the issue of refugees in the context of the capitalist development model. In the second, we will problematize the refugees and their relationship with environmental injustice; in the third, we will relate the impacts of human rights violations on Environmental Refugees.