the coasts and islands of this Region. C. The right to personal integrity and the relevance of the environment for the inhabitants of the coasts and islands of the Caribbean 108. As is widely accepted, the right to physical integrity – understood as the right to physical, mental and moral integrity – is one of the basic pillars of a human being’s dignity. 63 The relationship between personal integrity and human dignity has even been recognized by the Court starting with its first cases, 64 because a violation of personal integrity may also, in different ways, constitute a violation of dignity. 65 109. The right to personal integrity, closely related to the right to life, seeks to protect the three basic dimensions of human life: the physical, mental and moral dimensions. As indicated by doctrine, physical integrity refers to the human body and to the health of the individual; mental integrity to the motor, emotional and intellectual capabilities, and moral integrity to the right of every individual to live his life according to his convictions. 66 110. As a result of the relationship between life and personal integrity, it is also logical that the right to personal integrity also depends on the conditions of the environment for its full exercise and enjoyment. 111. Thus, for example, in Resolution 2398/68 (XXIII) “Problems of the human environment” – in which it was decided to convene the Stockholm conference – the General Assembly indicated its concern owing to “the continuing and accelerating impairment of the quality of the human environment [...] [and the consequent effects on the condition of man, his physical, mental and social well-being, his dignity and his enjoyment of basic human rights.” 112. The serious effects of the degradation of the environment on the different dimensions of human life have also been recognized by the Commission in relation to the indigenous and tribal peoples, when asserting that the protection of natural resources and environmental integrity was “necessary to ensure certain basic rights [of the members of such communities], such as to life, dignity, personal integrity, health, property, privacy and information.” 67 63 Claudio Nash, “Articulo 5. Derecho a la integridad personal” in Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos, Comentario, Editorial Temis, Bogotá, 2014, p. 133. 64 Ibid. pp. 134-135; ICourtHR, Case of Castillo Paez v. Peru. Merits. Judgment of November 3, 1997. Series C No. 34, para. 66. 65 See also, Claudio Nash, “Articulo 5. Derecho a la integridad personal” in Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos, Comentario, Editorial Temis, Bogotá, 2014, p 135. 66 Andean Commission of Jurists, Protección de los derechos humanos. Centro Editorial, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia 1999, p. 58 67 IACHR, Indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights over their ancestral lands and natural resources. Norms and jurisprudence of the inter-American human rights system. OEA/Ser.L/V/II, Doc. 56/09 (December 30, 2009), para. 194. 60