The Human Right to Water: Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation - Couverture rigide

Winkler, Inga

 
9781849462839: The Human Right to Water: Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation
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ISBN 10 : 1849462836 ISBN 13 : 9781849462839
Editeur : Hart Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State obligations.
The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the most basic needs of all people. The human right to water has the potential to address these underlying structural causes of the lack of access to water rooted in inequalities and poverty by empowering people to hold the State accountable to live up to its human rights obligations and to demand that their basic needs are met with priority.

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À propos de l?auteur

Inga Winkler is a lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and previously was the Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation.

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Éditeur
Hart Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849462836
ISBN 13 
9781849462839
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
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