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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… defenders with 42 deaths in 2015. Agribusiness, hydroelectric dams and logging were also key drivers of … with 42 defenders murdered. Agribusiness (20 killings), hydroelectric dams and water rights (15) and logging (15) … to earlier threats against the victims.106 The growth in energy demand has driven the construction of large …
Defenders of the Earth
… that the state- owned company behind a series of planned hydroelectric dams manipulated community consultations, … Development Bank (Finnfund) continued to bankroll the hydroelectric project Berta opposed, even after she and … defenders. In 2013, the World Bank introduced a new energy policy that sought to limit funding of coal-fired …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… and integrated framework for decision making on water and energy development that incorporates the full range of … allow great flexibility in its location. The example of a hydroelectric dam as a CDM project illustrates a situation in … ing dirty energy sources with “cleaner” energy, such as hydroelectric power. However, while hydropower has advantages …
Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group
… motorcycle.35 Cabal was known for his opposition to a new hydroelectric dam project on the Pulangi river, which was … fuels; they build dams to improve irrigation and produce hydroelectric power; and they clear forests for farms and … against Chevron Corporation, an american multinational energy corporation responsible for oil spills and …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… was the Principal Research Associate for the Renewable Energy and International Law Project in Washington, DC. Here … conservation through their administration of small-scale hydroelectric facilities and provision of fossil fuels as … other building timber), water—including for irrigation and hydroelectric power—firewood (deadwood only) and forest …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… a green economy and to sustainable approaches to food, energy and water security. Indeed, efforts to encourage … to the international community in addressing food, energy and water security and in achieving sustainable … by indigenous peoples have become a major source of hydroelectric power, minerals, hardwoods, and pasture lands. …
Water as a human right?
… The WSSD recognised the key role of water in agriculture, energy, health, biodiversity and ecosystems as well as in … 2015. It recognised the key role of water in agriculture, energy, health, biodiversity and ecosystems as well as in … shared by Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Jordan; Turkey’s hydroelectric power plants on the Tigris and Euphrates …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… Use of the River Danube ...........................41 Energy Charter Treaty … 2009); World Health Organization, Fuel for Life: Household Energy and Health 10 (2006). 31 Committee on the Rights of … countries’ economies, increasing shipping and producing hydroelectric power. Article 15 of the Budapest Treaty aimed …