Implications of plastic pollution for the full enjoyment of human rights

In its decision 56/117, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a comprehensive study on the implications of plastic pollution for the full enjoyment of human rights, based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastic, and to present the study to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-sixth session.

In its decision 56/117, the Human Rights Council also requested the Advisory Committee, when preparing the above-mentioned study, to seek the views of and inputs from and to take into account work already done by relevant stakeholders, including States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, international and regional organizations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, national human rights institutions, Indigenous Peoples, civil society, environmental human rights defenders, the private sector, academia and scientific institutions.

The Advisory Committee established a drafting group.

The current members of the drafting group are:

• Joseph Gérard Angoh
• Buhm-Suk Baek
• Riva Ganguly Das
• Vassilis Tzevelekos
• Yue Zhang
• Vasilka Sancin (Rapporteur)