A/HRC/RES/25/21 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 15 April 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-fifth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 25/21. Human rights and the environment The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 16/11 of 24 March 2011 and 19/10 of 22 March 2012, and recalling that, in the latter, the Council decided to establish the mandate of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, Recalling other relevant Human Rights Council resolutions on human rights and climate change, on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation and on the right to food, as well as relevant Commission on Human Rights resolutions on human rights and the environment as part of sustainable development, Recalling also the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Welcoming the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, and its outcome document “The GE.14-13617 *1413617*