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Environmental rights
The growth of non-government organisations, such as Greenpeace, has highlighted environmental issues, and brought moral pressure to bear against offending nations. Action to gain environmental rights can even be taken in the International Court of Justice, as Australia did with the French nuclear tests in the Pacific. This option can work only if both nations agree. Australia is one of the few nations that has signed the treaty to use the International Court of Justice. The United States, when taken to court about the mining of Nicaragua waters, simply withdrew from the case. Australia is one of the few countries that has signed an agreement to always take issues to the International Court of Justice, and abide by its decision