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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… iAEA Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management … the environment linkages, such as with respect to toxic waste, indigenous peoples rights, food, water and climate …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… the services they provide, such as food, water, disease management, climate regulation, spiritual fulfilment, and … Beginning in the 1970s with the increase of hazardous waste and concerns regarding illicit trafficking and dumping … Commission of Human Rights affirmed that dumping of toxic waste and dangerous products and wastes constitutes a serious …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… rights obligations related to environmental protection and management. Although not all of these practices may always be … N H U M A N R I G H T S A N D T H E E N V I R O N M E N T waste, transport, and financing. For example, under air and … of rhino in a national park, the unlawful disposal of waste, illegal cutting and collection of wood and driving in …
UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015
… and Corporate Services PIMs Project Information and Management Systems POW Programme of Work PRC Project Review … Governance 35 v. Sub-programme 5: Chemicals and Waste 32 vi. Sub-programme 6: Resource Efficiency 36 vii. … field of the environment. Sub-Programme 5: Chemicals and Waste Objective of the Organization: To promote a transition …
Water as a human right?
… and international society is critical for ensuring better management and planning for meeting basic water needs. The … for one’s private life and home. The case concerned a waste treatment plant, which caused health problems and … and 25,000 people dying of hunger every day?65 Why waste more time on academic debates on whether or not to …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Africa and the Control of their Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa, which requires … Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of all … to take into account when establishing conservation and management measures the need to ensure access to fisheries by …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… a variety of public and private stake- holders in resource management, to decentralization of government institutions … water quality, air quality, hazardous substances and waste. For example, the dumping of radio-active waste at sea may result in harm not only to aquatic life but …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… 65 II RBA in the Community Forest Management Context … Canadian citizens alleged that the storage of radioactive waste near their homes threatened the right to life of … and agro-industrial activities may involve transport of waste and consequent impacts, as well as risks of explosions. …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… InforMEA is steered by the MEA Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Initiative with the support of UN … that illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous substances and waste potentially constitutes a serious threat to the human … including the operation of chemical factories and waste-collection sites. The Inter-American Commission on …