Direito em Movimento - Volume 19 - Número 1 - 1º semestre - 2021
100 Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 19 - n. 1, p. 81-107, 1º sem. 2021 ARTIGOS and comprehensive tapestry will help to protect the planet and improve the lives of its human inhabitants. Human dignity cannot be achieved without sustainable practices, and vice versa. Viewing the SDGs through the lens of human dignity – the sin- gle idea that the drafters of the United Nations Charter itself thought was the foundation of peace, justice, and freedom in the world and that grounds human rights law today – can help to improve understanding and implementation. Simply, sustainability’s virtue is in promoting the fundamental precept of human dignity: recognizing the equal worth of everyone, everywhere. REFERENCES MAY James R. ‘ Sustainability Constitutionalism’, 86 University of Missou- ri-Kansas City Law Review (2018) 130; James R. May, ‘Sustainability and Global Environmental Constitutionalism,’ in James R. May et al (eds), New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism (UN, 2017) 308-318. DALY, Dignity Rights : Courts, supra note 42, at 105. MAY, James R. ‘ Of Development, daVinci and Domestic Legislation:The Pros- pects for Sustainable Development in Asia and its Untapped Potential in the United States ,’ 3 Widener Law Review (1998) 197-212. UNGA, ‘Transforming Our World:The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Deve- lopment’ , UNGA Res. 70/1 of 25 September 2015. MAY & DALY, James R. May and Erin Daly, ‘ The Indivisibility of Hu- man Dignity and Sustainability,’ in Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gon- zalez and Sara Seck (eds),The Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development (Cambridge University Press, for- thcoming 2020). DALY & MAY, Erin Daly and James R. ‘ Bridging Environmental and Dignity Rights’ , 7(2) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (2016) 218-242.
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