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Differential Treatment
in International Environmental Law
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Governance, human rights and equity

Sustainable environmental governance constitutes one of the most important pillars for the full and effective implementation of international and national environmental laws. It requires the setting up of institutions from the local to the international level that can deliver effective, fair and equitable environmental management.

Sustainable environmental governance is intrinsically related to the fulfilment of human rights, in particular with regard to the links between environmental management and the realisation of specific human rights. Further, it is directly related to issues of equity, for instance concerning the situation of women in environmental management (gender concerns) or the relations between states in international law (differential treatment).

IELRC's governance, human rights and equity programme focuses on a number of inter-related issues. These include:

  • environmental governance from the local level to the international level,

  • differential treatment (equity) in international law,

  • human rights and the environment and environmental justice,

  • procedural rights, including issues surrounding environmental and strategic impact assessment, and

  • gender issues in environmental management.



Selected Academic Publications on Justice & Human Rights

     
The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project: An Overview
P. Cullet ed., Sardar Sarovar Dam Project: Selected Documents (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), p.1-40
 

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Illegality and the Urban Poor
41 Economic and Political Weekly (22 July 2006), p. 3193.
 

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Water Investments and the Participation of Local Communities
E. Brown Weiss, L. Boisson de Chazournes & N. Bernasconi-Osterwalder eds, Fresh Water and International Economic Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p.303.
 

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India and the ICC
3 Journal of International Criminal Justice 627 (2005)
 

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Demolition Drive
40/27 Economic & Political Weekly 2908-12 (2 July 2005)
 

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Human Rights and Displacement: The Indian Supreme Court Decision on Sardar Sarovar in International Perspective
50 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2001), p. 973
 

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Improving Tools and Techniques for Crisis Management - The Ecological Sources of Conflict: Experiences from Eastern Africa
1/2 Romanian Journal of Political Science (2001), p. 134
 

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The Environmental Accountability of the World Bank to Non-State Actors: Insights from the Inspection Panel
72 British Yearbook of International Law (2001), p. 213
 

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Differential Treatment in International Law: Towards a new Paradigm of Inter-State Relations
10 European Journal of International Law (1999), p. 549
 

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Hang them Now, Hang Them not - India's Travails with the Death Penalty
40 Journal of the Indian Law Institute (1998), p. 143
 

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Displacement and the Law
31 Economic & Political Weekly (1996), p. 1486.
 

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Definition of an environmental right in a human rights context
13 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (1995), p. 25
 

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IELRC's Working Papers on Justice and Human Rights

Towards Greater Access to Justice in Environmental Rights: Need for a New Perspective
       
   
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Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights: Need for a New Perspective
       
   
full text    239 [KB]

Illegality and Exclusion: Law in the lives of slum dwellers
       
   
full text    394 [KB]

Implementation of Court Orders in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An Overview of the experience of the Indian Judiciary
       
   
full text    366 [KB]

Along the Narmada - Jan Sunwai
       
   
full text    651 [KB]

Business and Human Rights: the India Paper
       
   
full text    647 [KB]

Human Rights in India: a Mapping
       
   
full text    685 [KB]

The Operational Environment and Constraints for NGOs in Kenya: Strategies for Good Policy and Practice
       
   
full text    516 [KB]

Strategic Planning and Implementation of Public Involvement in Environmental Decision-making as the Relate to Environmental Impact Assessment in Kenya
       
   
full text    470 [KB]

Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development: Integrating Local Communities in Environmental Management
       
   
full text    313 [KB]

Other Contributions on Justice and Human Rights

 

Rehabilitation: where the truth lies (2006)
 

Creating dispensable citizens (2006)
 

Sardar Sarovar Judgement and Human Rights (2001)
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