section_path: History/After World War II/Including environmental rights
section_name: Including environmental rights
paragraph_text: Including environmental rights
  
  In 2021 the United Nations Human Rights Council officially recognized "having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment" as a human right. In April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights ruled, for the first time in history, that the Swiss government had violated human rights by not acting strongly enough to stop climate change.