Unlawful transboundary movement and storage of hazardous substances (toxic dumping Sample Clauses

Unlawful transboundary movement and storage of hazardous substances (toxic dumping. Unlawful transboundary movement and (mis)storage of hazardous substances is a growing threat to the environment.576 In an increasingly crowded world, where national regulatory frameworks often outright prohibit any storage or dumping of hazardous materials, there is a strong economic incentive to find cheap locations to deposit the harmful payload.577 This practice is often referred to as toxic dumping and encompasses conduct such as trafficking of hazardous substances and failing to ensure that toxic substances are properly disposed. Toxic dumping can occur both within and outside of armed conflict. The primary instrument regulating this conduct at the international level is the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, which was adopted on 22 March 1989 and entered into force on 5 May 1992. There are over 175 parties 575 See Chapter II(C) (noting that genocide is usually charged where there has been a large-scale killing). 576 Since 1995 a Special Rapporteur on Toxic Dumping has been appointed to galvanise efforts to combat this scourge; Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes - xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/EN/Issues/Environment/ToxicWastes/Pages/SRToxicWastesIndex.aspx. In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council strengthened the mandate of the Special Rapporteur to cover the whole life-cycle of hazardous waste; Human Rights Council Resolution 18/11 2011. 577 For more detailed discussions of these crimes see above discussion of using crimes against humanity to prosecute environmental harm, Chapter II(C). to the Convention. However, the examples listed herein do not all necessarily feature in the annexes to that conviction. Nonetheless, the Basel Convention provides a useful reference to identify potentially harmful substances, which could potentially be incorporated into the analysis of international crimes concerning toxic dumping, as discussed below.
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