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

… international Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage … Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety … Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to … ............................45 UNECE Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the …
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Factsheet on Human Rights and the Environment

… regimes have touched on individual rights by providing liability and compensation mechanisms, which imply … and many MEAs include provisions regarding civil liability and compensation for damage caused by environmental …
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Water as a human right?

… Ibid. at 274. 137 e.g. International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (1970) making ship-owners … against offending ships; Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy (1960) imposing liability on operators of nuclear installations; Vienna …
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Earth Rights: The Theory

… correlates with Duty, Liberty with No-Right, Power with Liability and Immunity with Disability. 42 Immanuel Kant, … For example, in France there is a provision for criminal liability for omissions. See further Andrew Ashworth and Eva …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… the European Court referred to the Convention on Civil Liability for Damage resulting from Activities Dangerous to … and participation. See, e.g., Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to … (Paris, Sept. 22, 1992), art. 9; Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to …
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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… at least anecdotal evidence that, at the domestic level, liability claims pertaining to environmental harm have led to … Michael Faure & Andre Nollekaemper, International Liability as an Instrument to Prevent and Compensate for … entity. Finally, it should be realized that state liability could arise not just because of the state’s direct …
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New Directions in Earth Rights, Environmental Rights and Human Rights: Six Facets of Constitutionally Embedded Environmental Rights Worldwide

… dimensions. These facts complicate the attribution of liability in domestic constitutional courts. In Eurogold, the …
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Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Article 8 “does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation” (§51). NO BASIS FOR LIABILITY OR COMPENSATION …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… aggravating circum- stances, reoccurring offences, joint liability and the consequences of penalties. Need for … of the planet through new rules on indi- vidual and social liability • cultural need: to provide the common heritage of … in Baxi (ed.), Mass Disasters and Multinational Liability; The Bhopal Case (Delhi, 1986), 178–83. Agarwal, …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… interest standing provision. Chapter vI addresses legal liability under the law, and imposes various types of liability on violators, including administrative fines and tort liability. Article 60 also allows the government in certain …
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