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Transnational Human Rights Litigation and Territorialized Knowledge : Kiobel and the ‘Politics of Space’

Liste, Philip - 2014

In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Dutch and British private corporations were accused of having aided and abetted in the violation of the human rights of individuals in Nigeria. A lawsuit, however, was brought in the United States, relying on the Alien Tort Statute – part of a Judiciary Act...

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Climate change litigation and central banks

Setzer, Joana; Higham, Catherine; Jackson, Andrew; … - 2021

the world. The papers examine the evolution of climate-related cases, the scope of such cases and the varying grounds on …

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment : Climate Change Report

Knox, John H. - 2016

This report describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate-related actions. The...

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The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living Exists as an ‘Umbrella Right’, but Does the Right to Sanitation Exist as an Independent and Internationally Accepted Human Right?

Fahmy, Ahmed - 2018

This paper discusses whether the right to sanitation exists as an independent and internationally recognized human right in international law. It assesses if and how the right to sanitation constitutes a legally binding obligation on states by examining its existence in the two principle sources...

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Human Rights and the Regulation of Transnational Clinical Trials

Pierik, Roland - 2014

One of the more worrying trends in globalization today is the growing practice of western companies relocating clinical trials to impoverished countries. This paper starts by providing a comprehensive description of the practice and its current regulatory oversight. It argues that this...

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The Global Food System, Environmental Protection, and Human Rights

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2016

the world’s population. While law could play an important role in facilitating the transition to a more just and …, and argues that agriculture should be removed from the purview of the World Trade Organization. The article concludes by …

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Emerging Paradigms of Protection for 'Second Generation' Human Rights

Woods, Jeanne M. - 2013

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Human Rights Impact Assessment in the Context of Biofuels : Addressing the Human Right to Food and the Human Right to Water

Haugen, Hans Morten - 2015

The original mandate of the UN Special Representative on business and human rights said that he should 'develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments.' Since then, tools for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) have developed by different actors. This...

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Protecting the Public Trust and Human Rights in the Great Lakes

Scanlan, Melissa K. - 2013

take Great Lakes trust water out of the public commons "without paying for it" and export it around the world. This does … not mean, however, that the Great Lakes governments turn their collective backs on areas of the world suffering severe … Agreement of 2005 that aims to fulfill the states' duties as trustees of this world-class resource …

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Patents, Biotechnology and Human Rights : The Preservation of Biodiverse Resources for Future Generations

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2014

this subject is on the active agenda of the WTO TRIPS Council, and it is being considered at the World Intellectual …

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