Human Rights Approach to Environment Protection: An Appraisal of Bangladesh

The need for effective protection of the global environment is nowadays incident. National and international communities search for instruments as effective as potential to stop or rather slow the destruction of the environment. While the predominant human rights approaches to environmental protection are currently based on public regulation by imposing duties, there have been a new human rights approach emerging based on each individual’s right to a certain quality of environment, which supposes connections between environmental protection and human rights. The well-established national and international systems of human rights guarantees have been increasingly used as an effective instrument for environmental protection. The purpose of this article is to introduce current National and International approaches to the links between human rights and environmental protection and examine how these human rights approaches are applied in the Bangladesh. Keywords: Right to a healthy and sound environment, human rights, protection, Legislation.

Identification of genotypes resistant to blast, bacterial leaf blight, sheath blight and tungro and efficacy of seed treating fungicides against blast disease of rice

A total of 35 inbred and 13 hybrid varieties including susceptible checks were screened against the 4 major diseases of rice (blast, bacterial leaf blight, sheath blight and tungro) as well as experiments on management of blast were conducted in the rain-fed and irrigated rice ecosystems during 1999 to 2003. Results showed that none of the tested high yielding varieties (HYV) were resistant to blast, while the hybrids, sonarbangla1, aalock6201, KRH2, IR71101H, IR68877H and IR76901H, and inbreds BR12, BR15 and IR72 were moderately resistant in the irrigated rice ecosystem. On the other hand, all the varieties tested against bacterial leaf blight (BLB) and sheath blight (ShB) were moderately susceptible in the same ecosystem. The inbred varieties BR22, BR25, BRRI dhan31, BRRI dhan32, BRRI dhan33, BRRI dhan34, BRRI dhan38 and BRRI dhan39 demonstrated moderately resistant reactions but all the hybrids were moderately susceptible to BLB in the rain-fed ecosystem. Eight inbreds, predominantly, BR22, BR23, BRRI dhan27, BRRI dhan31, BRRI dhan32, BRRI dhan37, BRRI dhan38 and BRRI dhan40 were moderately resistant to tungro disease. Among the 3 fungicides tested in 2 different trials, adivistin and haydazim 50 WP (carbendazim) at the rate of 0.4% were more effective as seed-treating fungicides for the control of rice blast disease