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South African indigenous community win environmental rights case over mining company

09 Dec 2018 News in Land and Agriculture

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

… 56 3.4 Human rights norms … 57 3.4.1. Human right to water … 57 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, …
17 Jul 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… purpose of each Article, and offers guidance on how the rights and obligations of contained therein policymakers and … Kinds of Uses 129 10.1 Commentary 129 10.1.1 Vital human needs 129 10.1.2 The human right to water 130 10.2 Application 132 10.2.1 …
17 Jul 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… of living and non-living resources, physical impacts by human activities on habitats for important and endangered species and important ecosystem services for human benefits and climate change. Examples of threats faced … UNCLOS. Within their EEZs, coastal states have sovereign rights and jurisdiction for certain purposes. The sovereign …
17 Jul 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Convention on Biological Diversity

… in paragraph (1) that the Convention shall not affect rights and obligations under other existing international … respect to the marine environment consistently with the rights and obligations of States under the law of the sea.” … on marine and coastal biodiversity 5. Impacts of human activities on marine and coastal biodiversity …
17 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… special regard being given to the requirements of vital human needs.” According to a “statement of understanding” … that negotiated the UN Convention, “ in determining ‘vital human needs,’ special attention is to be paid to providing sufficient water to sustain human life, including both drinking water and water required …
17 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

The Law of the Sea

… the mid-twentieth century, international competition over rights to harvest fisheries in outside of territorial waters … as harm to living resources and marine life hazard to human health, hindrance to marine activities, including … environment; Article 193 which preserves the sovereign rights of states to exploit their own natural resources …
17 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Introduction to Freshwater Resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… water resources 1. Introduction Water is essential to human and other forms of life. Therefore, attention should be … ecosystems should not be seen as something separate from human society and well being. They are, in fact, an integral … course will also address the issue of water allocation rights, falling under what is traditionally referred to as …
17 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Vessel-Based Sources of Marine Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… certificates and, if they do not, to deny them sailing rights. Article 7 establishes that inspections are to be … into the marine environment is likely to create hazards to human health, to harm living resources and marine life, to … 2008. It is designed to protect the marine environment and human health from the harmful effects of organotin-based …
17 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

National Regulation of Freshwater resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… advocates for a new decision-making framework based on a rights and risks approach. Provision of water services … a critical part, and of how these systems serve to support human life and contribute to economic development. These … water forms an integral part but also the many different human activities, both existing and proposed, that use and …
17 Jul 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater