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Author | : Léo Heller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108837247 |
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A comprehensive overview of the human rights to water and sanitation, exploring theoretical, conceptual, and practical aspects.
Author | : Inga Winkler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2014-08-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1847319629 |
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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.
Author | : Malcolm Langford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107010705 |
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The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.
Author | : Pierre Thielbörger |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3642339085 |
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Politicians and diplomats have for many years proclaimed a human right to water as a solution to the global water crisis, most recently in the 2010 UN General Assembly Resolution “The human right to water and sanitation”. To what extent, however, can a right to water legally and philosophically exist and what difference to international law and politics can it make? This question lies at the heart of this book. The book’s answer is to argue that a right to water exists under international law but in a more differentiated and multi-level manner than previously recognised. Rather than existing as a singular and comprehensive right, the right to water should be understood as a composite right of different layers, both deriving from separate rights to health, life and an adequate standard of living, and supported by an array of regional and national rights. The author also examines the right at a conceptual level. After disproving some of the theoretical objections to the category of socio-economic rights generally and the concept of a right to water more specifically, the manuscript develops an innovative approach towards the interplay of different rights to water among different legal orders. The book argues for an approach to human rights – including the right to water – as international minimum standards, using the right to water as a model case to demonstrate how multilevel human rights protection can function effectively. The book also addresses a crucial last question: how does one make an international right to water meaningful in practice? The manuscript identifies three crucial criteria in order to strengthen such a composite derived right in practice: independent monitoring; enforcement towards the private sector; and international realization. The author examines to what extent these criteria are currently adhered to, and suggests practical ways of how they could be better met in the future.
Author | : Eibe H. Riedel |
Publisher | : BWV Verlag |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 383051168X |
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... Based on presentations made at the International Conference on the Human Right to Water in Berlin, Germany, 21-22 October 2005.
Author | : John Scanlon |
Publisher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9782831707853 |
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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.
Author | : Roberta Greco |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000217469 |
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This book discusses the international right to water and the liberalization of water services. It is concerned with the harmonization of the right to water with the legal systems under which liberalization of water services has taken or may take place. It assesses paths of harmonization between international human rights law and international economic law in this specific field. The issue of the compatibility between the fulfilment of the right to water and the liberalization of water services has been at the heart of a passionate public debate between opponents and advocates of the privatization of the utility. The book provides an unbiased analysis of different international legal regimes under which the liberalization of water services has occurred or is likely to occur, notably international investment law, international trade law and European Union law, in order to assess whether the main features of the right to water can be guaranteed under each of these systems of law and whether there is space for prospective harmonization. The work will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of International Human Rights Law, International Economic Law, International Water Law, International Trade Law and EU Law.
Author | : Jimena Murillo Chávarro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Right to water |
ISBN | : 9781780685557 |
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Author | : Farhana Sultana |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1136518649 |
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The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.
Author | : Anna Berti Suman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004367810 |
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In The Human Right to Water in Latin America, Anna Berti Suman investigates the development of the right to water and of water law in the Latin American context, illustrating the Latin American contribution in stimulating the social, political, and economic debate on the right to water, regionally and worldwide.