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UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… to watercourse agreements 96 4.1 Commentary 96 4.1.1 Right to participation for watercourse states 97 4.1.2 The … Commentary 228 32.1.1 Non-discrimination and Equality of Access to National Remedies 228 32.1.2 Availability of … Figure 6.3 | Legal right of non-discrimination and equal access to national remedies 243 Figure 6.4 | Indus River …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 57 3.4.1. Human right to water … 57 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, participation and access to justice … 101 5.7.5. Human right to water … facing the international community today is to ensure access to adequate freshwater of sufficient quality to …
25 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… to improve water management, including for providing access to water, must have national and international (as … providing justice by seeking to ensure individuals have access to the services that ecosystems naturally provide, and guaranteeing the right to water for human well-being. States should be aware, …
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Share - Managing water across boundaries

… equitably, and avoid damag- ing conflicts. Engaging the right stakeholders at the right time is key Different forms … clarity on trade-offs, and diminishing asymmetries in access to information that often underlie negotiations.5 … and ecosystem services that can be obtained from access to that water. When two nations negotiate the …
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No Significant Harm and Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment

… during an EIA under the 1998 Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and other … the other state is the sole judge of that and has the right to information on the proposals” (p.15). The obligation …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… http://www.unesco.org/open-access/termsuse-ccbysa-en … on Strategic Environmental Assessment Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in … River to produce electricity. Pakistan retained a right to receive a minimum flow of water in the Kishenganga …
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B2 - Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Resources in Practice

… 2. Introduction Every watercourse State has the right to use the waters within its territory; however, this right is not unlimited and is not unconditional. The … in human health, poverty conditions, and human access to freshwater resources may also be achieved. [1] On …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

C1 - No Significant Harm, Pollution Prevention and Quality Standards

… (International Joint Commission 1938): “… no state has the right to use or permit to use its territory when the case is … Stockholm Declaration (1972): “States have… the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own … Biological Diversity (1992): “States have… the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Regulation of Freshwater at the Regional and Subregional Levels - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… exchange and protection of information, as well as public access to information. … http://leo.informea.org/terms/access-information The Protocol on Water and Health Two …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… Data Portal (left) and part of a River Basin Factsheet (right). TWAP programme level website and data portal …
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