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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… to fulfil individual’s human rights to life, health, water, food, work, culture, development, access to … to life, health, an adequate standard of living, food, water, housing, self-determination and means of subsistence, … on Human and Peoples’ Rights has decided cases concerning pollution and the exclusion of indigenous peoples from their …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… standard of living, to adequate food, to safe drinking water and sanitation, to housing, to participation in … rights, including their rights to life, health, food and water. Like directly discriminatory measures, such indirect … the quality of the environment, including air and water; pollution, waste, chemicals and other potentially harmful …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter of 1972 … is to prevent environmental harm, whether they concern pollution of the sea, inland waters, the atmosphere, soil or … loss; (2) the downstream community can build an adequate water treatment plant at its own cost; (3) the polluter may …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… 46 4.4.2 Climate change impacts on fresh water resources and … RESOURCES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT; IN THE BACKGROUND, A WATER STRESS MAP BASED ON THE 2005 VERSION OF WATERGAP … and can be easily damaged by light or temperature changes, pollution or chemical changes in the water. The exceptionally …
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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… Agribusiness (20 killings), hydroelectric dams and water rights (15) and logging (15) were also major drivers of … steps of the local court building. He had spoken out about pollution of the La Pasión River allegedly caused by the palm … REPSA have rejected accusations that they caused the water pollution in the Río de la Pasión and have also …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report

… the park because their own cattle have no fodder or water outside the forest thanks to a severe drought. … and new community systems of resource management, such as water, forests, and others paving a way for the conflict … industrial Area in Maharashtra, India have for years seen pollution of their water bodies and over extraction of their …
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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… wild grass Gandhak – sulphur Gon – turn at receiving water Haitien – village warden Hanafi fiqha – Hanafi school … fevers in parts of the Settled Areas Khusman – poor Kool – water channel, irrigation channel Kora – strap, whip; a … was that animal food was being contaminated due to the pollution caused by urbanization and rock blasting. They also …
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… and communities. Sacred natural site. Areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and … Links between faiths and the conservation of land and water were found in every belief system examined by Dudley et … researching, managing and mitigating overuse, sources of pollution, natural disasters, and the effects of climate …
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… landscape (when applicable), past and current land- and water-use practices and their links to cultural and spiritual … trade routes, historic settlements, intricate land and water-use systems, and traces of sophisticated social … water directly into the river, causing noticeable river pollution” (World Bank 2005). The APSARA Authority, aware of …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… dugongs, turtles, shellfish, crocodiles and sea and water birds. We can describe and name in detail coastal, … as well as non-monetary terms, is its high quality water. It is the main water source for the city of Flagstaff … its unsanctioned activities in the for- ests. Increasing pollution caused by waste around the settlement and on the …
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