Criminal Protection of the Rights of Future Generations in International Documents

The rights of the future generations are the rights by which the natural resources that have been inherited from the previous generation to the current generation are transferred to the next generation and are important topics and the basis of the restoration of intergenerational justice. From the international perspective, there are three examples for the concept of the rights of future generations: First, it is necessary for each generation to protect natural resources. Second, by exploiting natural resources, irreparable damage should not be done to it.  Third natural resources belongs to all generations and there is no reason to be attached to a particular generation. Worrying about the rights of future generations is the common pain of all humanity, and the indiscriminate use of natural resources by the current generation has caused concerns for future generations, and in this regard, international assemblies have considered it their duty to recognize the rights of the future generations and its protection has taken an important step that initially the concept of the rights of future generations entered international law with the ratification of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and then with the issuance of the Stockholm Declaration in 1972, which was addressed in binding and non-binding documents and accordingly Entered the internal laws of countries.