Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Compilation of Essential Documents on the Rights to Water and Environment
Author: A Compilation of Essential Documents on the Right to Social Security
Author: A Compilation of Essential Documents on the Rights to Accommodation, Housing and Shelter
Author: Water as a Human Right?
Author: John ScanlonPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831707853
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Formally acknowledging water as a human right could encourage the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development Goals. But critical questions arise in relation to a right to water. What would be the benefits and content of such a right? What mechanisms would be required for its effective implementation? Should the duty be placed on governments alone, or should the responsibility also be borne by private actors? Is another 'academic debate' on this subject warranted when action is really what is necessary? Without claiming to prescribe the answers, this publication clearly and carefully sets out the competing arguments and the challenges.
Sustainable Development in International Law
Author: Dire TladiPublisher: PULP
ISBN: 0958509794
Category : Environmental law, International
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Socio-economic Rights in South Africa
Author: Danie BrandPublisher: PULP
ISBN: 062034086X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Compilation of Water Pollution Control, Environmental Protection, and Related Laws
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Right to Life
Author: Christian TomuschatPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004189653
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The right to life stands at the heart of human rights protection. Individuals cannot enjoy any of the rights guaranteed to them unless their physical existence is ensured. All human rights instrument list the right to life as the first one of their safeguards. Nonetheless, in many situations human life finds itself under structural threat. Although obligated by law to protect the right to life, State authorities time and again engage in deliberate acts of killing. Fortunately, international review bodies have devised many imaginative counter-strategies. Another one of those structural threats is global warming. Obviously, armed conflict puts human life inevitably at risk; the limits of the ‘license to kill’ given by the laws of war must be scrupulously observed.
A Compilation of Water Quality Goals
Author: Jon Bruce MarshackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Author: Amanda Cahill RipleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136804307
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which declares access to clean water and sanitation a human right (New York, Jul 28 2010), the recent appointment of the UN Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and movement within the NGO community for an international water treaty. Amanda Cahill Ripley analyses the current legal status, substantive content, and obligations correlative to the right, and examines the relationship between other economic, social and cultural rights related to the right to water. The book goes on to look more specifically at the application of the human right to water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Using innovative methodology, Cahill Ripley combines legal analysis with a qualitative social science empirical case study to explore the enjoyment of the right ‘on the ground’. The wider implications of the case study findings are then considered, looking at what can be done to strengthen the right legally in terms of its status and codification, and what remedy can be found for violations of the right, both specifically in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in a more general context. The book will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners within the fields of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as well as those concerned with international relations and conflict resolution within Israel/Palestine and the wider Middle East region.