Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789892049809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Access to Justice for Violations of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
Author: The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
Author: Léo HellerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108944973
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This analysis of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (HRtWS) uncovers why some groups around the world are still excluded from these rights. Léo Heller, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, draws on his own research in nine countries and reviews the theoretical, legal, and political issues involved. The first part presents the origins of the HRtWS, their legal and normative meanings and the debates surrounding them. Part II discusses the drivers, mainly external to the water and sanitation sector, that shape public policies and explain why individuals and groups are included in or excluded from access to services. In Part III, public policies guided by the realization of HRtWS are addressed. Part IV highlights populations and spheres of living that have been particularly neglected in efforts to promote access to services.
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.
The Human Right to Water
Author: Malcolm LangfordPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010705
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.
The Human Right to Water
Author: Salman M. A. SalmanPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Currently, it is reported that more than two billion people are affected by water shortages in over 40 countries, with diseases associated with unsafe drinking water and lack of adequate sanitation among the leading causes of death in developing countries. Predictions forecast that by the year 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. This publication, written by recognised experts in this field, explores the genesis of the debate on the right to water and the links between development issues, water resources and human rights. It focuses on the importance of General Comment No. 15 (issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2002) which explicitly recognizes a human right to water; and concludes that an incipient right to water is emerging in international law, supported by several soft law instruments, evolving customary international law and an increasing number of domestic law provisions.
Environmental Justice in the United States
Author: Tamar MeshelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inequities and limitations in access to safe and affordable water and to the decision-making processes that guide water management and distribution affect communities around the world and across the US and, with the added impacts of climate change, present a growing problem of environmental justice. The complex significance of water coupled with the unequal nature of water resource distribution has given rise to the notion of a 'human right to water and sanitation', designed to reinforce and protect human demands and needs related to water. This human right has been recognized at the international level and international law now imposes specific obligations on states related to their populations' access to safe drinking water and sanitation. The recognition and enforcement of the human right to water and sanitation is also of great importance in both developing and developed countries, including in the US. The widespread assumption that safe and affordable water and sanitation services are available to all residents of the US misrepresents reality, which is that many low-income communities, communities of color, and indigenous communities in the US in fact lack access to water for the most basic human needs as well as to basic sanitation. This is in part a result of the fragmented legal framework governing water issues in the US, as well as ineffective laws and regulations that purport to protect safe and affordable access to water and sanitation. Moreover, unlike its increasing foothold at the international level, the human right to water has yet to be meaningfully recognized in the US. This article sets out to assess the potential for the notion of a human right to water and sanitation to promote laws and policies in the US that would ensure water justice across the country, and in particular for vulnerable or disadvantaged communities.
Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners
Author: Robert BosPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1780407432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Manual highlights the human rights principles and criteria in relation to drinking water and sanitation. It explains the international legal obligations in terms of operational policies and practice that will support the progressive realisation of universal access. The Manual introduces a human rights perspective that will add value to informed decision making in the daily routine of operators, managers and regulators. It also encourages its readership to engage actively in national dialogues where the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are translated into national and local policies, laws and regulations. Creating such an enabling environment is, in fact, only the first step in the process towards progressive realisation. Allocation of roles and responsibilities is the next step, in an updated institutional and operational set up that helps apply a human rights lens to the process of reviewing and revising the essential functions of operators, service providers and regulators.
The Human Right to Water
Author: Inga WinklerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847319629
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State obligations. The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the most basic needs of all people. The human right to water has the potential to address these underlying structural causes of the lack of access to water rooted in inequalities and poverty by empowering people to hold the State accountable to live up to its human rights obligations and to demand that their basic needs are met with priority.
Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives
Author: Ivano AlognaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900444761X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
This ground-breaking volume provides analyses from experts around the globe on the part played by national and international law, through legislation and the courts, in advancing efforts to tackle climate change, and what needs to be done in the future. Published under the auspices of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), the volume builds on an event convened at BIICL, which brought together academics, legal practitioners and NGO representatives. The volume offers not only the insights from that event, but also additional materials, sollicited to offer the reader a more complete picture of how climate change litigation is evolving in a global perspective, highlighting both opportunities, and constraints.
Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development
Author: United Nations. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description