{"id":12330,"date":"2026-03-21T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=12330"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:51:21","slug":"un-expert-warns-air-pollution-is-a-global-human-rights-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=12330","title":{"rendered":"UN Expert Warns Air Pollution Is a Global Human Rights Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-section-id=\"15jjfu5\" data-start=\"3491\" data-end=\"3576\"><strong>Geneva (HRNW)<\/strong> \u2014A UN Special Rapporteur has warned that <strong data-start=\"3617\" data-end=\"3675\">air pollution is now a major global human rights issue<\/strong>, affecting millions of people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3720\" data-end=\"3938\">The report presented to the Human Rights Council states that polluted air contributes to <strong data-start=\"3809\" data-end=\"3851\">millions of premature deaths each year<\/strong> and disproportionately impacts children, elderly people, and low-income communities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3940\" data-end=\"4147\">Experts emphasized that access to clean air is a <strong data-start=\"3989\" data-end=\"4016\">fundamental human right<\/strong>, urging governments to take stronger action to reduce emissions and protect public health.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4149\" data-end=\"4256\">\ud83d\udce2 <strong data-start=\"4152\" data-end=\"4225\">Support environmental justice and the right to a healthy environment:<\/strong><br data-start=\"4225\" data-end=\"4228\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hrnww.com\/support-us\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"4228\" data-end=\"4256\">https:\/\/hrnww.com\/support-us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva (HRNW) \u2014A UN Special Rapporteur has warned that air pollution is now a major global human rights issue, affecting millions of people worldwide. The report presented to the Human Rights Council states that polluted air contributes to millions of premature deaths each year and disproportionately impacts children, elderly people, and low-income communities. Experts emphasized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12332,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions\/12332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}