Providing modern contraception also has the potential to stem population growth and relieve human pressure on the environment and natural resources.

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Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health, and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.

UNESCO: Understanding sustainable development

One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.

UNESCO: Open Access to Scientific Information

The site also has inscriptions and archaeological remains that testify to 12, 000 years of human occupation and interaction with the natural environment, and for this reason was inscribed in the World Heritage List as a mixed natural and cultural property.

UNESCO: Office in Amman

The five main areas of cooperation are local human development, natural disasters and risks, environment and energy, health and food security.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Human economic development must both be balanced with and not alienated from the natural environment.

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