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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… the next few decades.56 Melting glaciers will increase flood risk during the wet season and strongly reduce … of these rights for those who, for reasons beyond their control, are unable to realise these rights by themselves.81 … 26 STAN. ENVTL. L.J. 181 (2007); ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CONTROL: SUB-NATIONAL, NATIONAL AND SUPRA-NATIONAL APPROACHES …
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Defenders of the Earth

… group, the FARC.3 Areas previously under guerrilla control are now eyed enviously by extractive companies and … INDUSTRIES AT THE HEART OF THE VIOLENCE Conflicts over the control of land and natural resources were an underlying … web of militias and paramilitary groups are jostling to control the territories it leaves behind. This brings them …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and … per second between 12 noon and 2 p.m. causing a flash flood in the area around the reservoir where the applicants … from the flooded area had been organized following the flood, leaving them to find their own way to safety, and …
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New Directions in Earth Rights, Environmental Rights and Human Rights: Six Facets of Constitutionally Embedded Environmental Rights Worldwide

… the class of potential plaintiffs precisely to enhance the control that the people have over the government. In many … alleged that the implementation of a substantial flood control plan would so disrupt the affected community‟s … Association (BELA) to enjoin dumping of wastes in a flood zone,56 to prevent cutting forests for a cement …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… in relation to the environment and under the control of public authorities. Article 15 of the Convention … of these changes and tools used for implementation and control of the environmental policy.” Further Information: … the right of children to safe drinking water, and the control of ragweed, an allergenic plant. Further Information: …
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Water as a human right?

… do not provide a sufficient basis for ensuring effective control of environmental protection and equity. An … of wetlands deprives catchments of their natural flood mitigation system and filtration system adversely … and industrial hygiene; (c) The prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… of rights means ensuring the observance of rights through control, monitoring, investigation, and enforcement. … are likely implicated in cases where the reservoir will flood the homes of the community. The right to life, culture, … and religion may be at risk where the reservoir will flood cemeteries and ceremonial sites. The right to land, …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… internal safeguards, but also by developing supply chain control mechanisms to help ensure partners also respect basic … freedom to exercise customary law, and ownership, control, and development of communal lands, territories, and … maintaining forests’ regulating ecosystem services, (flood control and • disease prevention), which may enhance …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other … in relation to the environment and under the control of public authorities. Most States have adopted …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance