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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… Convention on international Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora … to protecting the human rights of individuals (pro homine) threatened by present day challenges such as environmental … precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened specifies of animals and plants of outstanding …
Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report
… to 3°C, 20 to 30 per cent of the assessed plant and animal species are likely to be at a high risk of extinction.20 The decimation of other species will harm the human species too. With respect to the … of their duties with respect to the particular rights threatened by the harm. Nevertheless, despite the variety of …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems (CBD, Article 2). … use of those plants. The Traditional Healers were being threatened by commercial overharvesting, denial of access to … services, such as areas high in species richness or threatened species, threatened biomes and habitats, areas …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… rights–complaint procedures to protect nature or other species have had only limited success.5 Yet with close to 115 … that the storage of radioactive waste near their homes threatened the right to life of present and future … For example, inhabitants of small island states are threatened with total loss of territory and with …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… concerning harmful activities may prevent or mitigate the threatened harm and contribute to public support for … the needs and capacities of present generations of all species with those of the future. Combining the two … concerning harmful activities may prevent or mitigate the threatened harm and contribute to public support for …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… conflicting stakes in terms of government credibility, the threatened supremacy of law, significant economic interests, … build a link road through a natural area which contained threatened and endangered species of fauna. In partic- ular, the Yellow Bellied Glider …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… and publicly reaffirm the work of public officials threatened when monitoring these sectors ▶ Develop National … region by illegal gold miners, who had repeatedly threatened him prior to his killing. He had denounced the … water sup- plies and displace the habitat of endangered species.169 Herakles’ operations in Cameroon have been …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… often focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, … complex situations that WHRDs face when they are threatened with violence because of their work. According to … to a wide range of remedies to individuals and communities threatened with environmental harm. The Tribunal has issued …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… sources of fresh water for many islands that may be threatened by rising sea levels. 56 Parry ML et al. eds., … rights to water and sanitation would not necessarily be threatened. Thus, the overarching imperative must be to set … “put 103 See e.g., CLIVE HAMILTON, REQUIEM FOR A SPECIES: WHY WE RESIST THE TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… to remedy environmental injury: the extinction of a species of fauna or flora, erosion, loss of human life and … extends to combating the introduction of exogenous species into an ecosystem. Article V(4) of the 1976 … financial, economic, food and energy crises, which have threatened the ability of all countries, in particular …