Human rights and environmental pollution In Mexico City

Abstract

This brief work is dedicated to addressing the problem of environmental pollution, referring to the human rights that are affected. We focus mainly on the air quality that exists in Mexico City; we address some aspects of the rights of vulnerable social groups, the harmful effects it has on children's health. There is a great lack of information about this that needs to be dispelled, to realize its gravity and to provoke widespread participation.
Considering that it is commonly accepted to refer to the "right to a healthy environment", recognized and protected as such by international human rights law, we affirm the idea that one can speak of a massive violation of people's "environmental rights".
As a result, we refer to the possible responsibility of society and mainly of the State, in the deterioration of the purity of the atmosphere that is breathed in the valley of Mexico; it is proposed to create a new type of health crime, aimed at those responsible for certain sources of pollutants that are highly toxic and dangerous. Necessary legislative reforms must be made to make the right to a healthy environment, an enforceable or claimable right, as are other human rights.
We briefly discuss some measures taken by the government in the fight against pollution: chemical changes in gasoline and its effects on people's health, the Regulation to regulate the movement of vehicles in the valley of Mexico, and the revolution that the "phenomenon of environmental breakdown" is causing in the traditional behaviors of society.