According to the United Nation Environment Programme or UNEP there are three main dimensions of the interrelationship between human rights and environmental protection:

• The environment as a pre-requisite for the enjoyment of human rights (implying that human rights obligations of States should include the duty to ensure the level of environmental protection necessary to allow the full exercise of protected rights);
• Certain human rights, especially access to information, participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters, as essential to good environmental decision-making (implying that human rights must be implemented in order to ensure environmental protection); and
• The right to a safe, healthy and ecologically-balanced environment as a human right in itself (this is a debated approach).

Source: www.unep.org

Last Sunday, April 17, 2011,  15,000 strong biker advocates (cycling revolutionaries as they call themselves) participated in the 13th tour of the Fireflies that went around Metro Manila.

This annual event of the Firefly brigade aims to promote the use of bicycle, raise awareness for the government’s environmentally sustainable transportation (EST) strategy and calls for a safer cycling environment so that the people can all do their part in saving the Earth and breathe CLEAN AIR.

“Hopefully, all of our combined efforts as environment advocates will pay off and soon we will all be riding safely in our city streets and be able to see the return of twinkling fireflies in the evenings to come.” Karen S. Crisostomo Tour Director, 13th Tour of the Fireflies, said in a message posted in http://www.fireflybrigade.org.

For more 13th Tour of the Fireflies photos please visit http://www.fireflybrigade.org/

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