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  • France to add green rights to constitution

    06/27/2003 9:30:00 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 27 replies · 207+ views
    Reuters ^ | June 26, 2003
    <p>The French cabinet this week backed plans to enshrine the right to a clean environment in the constitution, a step President Jacques Chirac said would raise green safeguards to the level of basic human rights.</p> <p>The plans would enable officials to take action to stop environmental damage. Chirac said they would make environmental rights equal to France's 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man, which is incorporated in the constitution.</p>