Human Rights and Duties to Alleviate Environmental Injustice: The Domestic Case

Human Rights and Duties to Alleviate Environmental Injustice: The Domestic Case

To the degree that citizens have participated in, or derived benefits from, social institutions that have helped cause serious, life-threatening, or rights-threatening environmental injustice (EIJ), this article argues that they have duties either to stop their participation in these institutions or to compensate for it by helping to reform them. (EIJ occurs whenever children, poor people, mino...

Rights and Duties

Environmental injustice: case studies from the South

We selected three case studies to illustrate environmental injustice issues in the South. These examples relate to migrant agricultural workers, the maquiladora industry and artisanal mining, while reviewing some of the major mechanisms involved, e.g. multinational corporations, the development of free trade zones, multilateral free trade agreements and the export of hazards. A series of strate...

The Right to Excellence Illumination and Human Rights

In the classical Greek thought, the notion of “right” was concomitant with the “truth”. In the modern era, however, the notion of “right” became intertwined with the primacy of   “possessive individuality”. This primacy was, however, from the outset intellectually challenged. In the light of challenges posed, and by invoking the commonalities between Shahaboddin Suhrawardi and Martin Heidegger,...

human rights approach to environmental planning

consequences of environmental issues for have significantly affected on human life aspect, such as livelihood, nutrition, access to water and health. most of these aspects are human rights issues which associated with environmental. in recent years, concerns about human rights violations due to the unhealthy environment are growing. environmental planning approaches and tools have not developed...