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New Directions in Earth Rights, Environmental Rights and Human Rights: Six Facets of Constitutionally Embedded Environmental Rights Worldwide

… other constitutionally entrenched rights, most commonly a “right to life.”10 This trend has been most notable in … environmental rights. First, what is an actionable „right‟ to the „environment‟? This query raises both … plan would so disrupt the affected community‟s life, property, and environmental security as to violate the right
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Water as a human right?

… IUCN Environmental Law Programme Water as a Human Right? The World Conservation UnionThe World Conservation … security and integrity) are implicated.”58 Right to property The Zander v. Sweden Case59 (1993) concerned … purposes.60 Such ability was one facet of their right of property, thus Art. 6(1) of the European Convention on Human …
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Earth Rights: The Theory

… 2. Fundamental rights of Mother Earth Mother Earth has the right to exist, to persist and to continue the vital cycles, … rights and freedoms of all beings Every being has: (a) the right to exist; (b) the right to habitat or a place to be; … actual harm caused to the ecosystem rather than a human property owner. For example, the ordinance adopted in Blaine, …
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The right to food within the international framework of human rights and country constitutions

… G A SSESSM EN T BU D G ET STA KEH O LD ERS TRA IN IN G The right to food within the international framework of human rights and country constitutions RIGHT TO FOOD HANDBOOKS 1 LE G ISLA T IO N The content of … and is necessary to produce and cook food; • the right to property, in particular access to land and other productive …
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Factsheet on Human Rights and the Environment

… political rights, such as the rights to life, religion and property; and cultural and social rights such as rights to … On occasion, human rights mechanisms have addressed the right to a healthy environment directly, but mainly they have … imply recognition of legally recognizable interests in property and health. Both human rights law and environmental …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… broader guarantees of conservation as itself a right are emerging. A further challenge may arise from … across groups or within a single group. The right to property, e.g., may be asserted to limit the designation of a … asserted that the government had violated the right to property of all Panamanians by authorizing construction of a …
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Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… in cultural life and to development, as well as the right to a healthy environment itself, which is recognized in … political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, and which has the purpose or … concerned.31 Even without formal recognition of property rights and delimitation and demarcation of …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… Implementation, Internet, Participation, Principle 10, Right to a Healthy Environment, Rio Declaration Implementing … order to minimize the impacts from such threats to life, property, infrastructure, and livelihoods in general. … and other environmental damage, for restitution of property damaged, and for restitution of the environment. The …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… Participatory Action Research PARF Protected Area People’s Right Federation (National coalition of communities affected … renewable energy. At FIELD she worked on intellectual property, traditional knowledge and biodiversity issues in … two examples of traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights regimes that consider gender issues and could …
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Review of the compatibility of sectoral laws with the right to food

… IN G Review of the compatibility of sectoral laws with the right to food RIGHT TO FOOD HANDBOOKS 3 LE G ISLA T IO NReview of the … political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or any other social condition. Particular … Review of the compatibility of sectoral laws with the right to food …
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