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To Have And To Be: An International Human Right To Clean, Healthy, And Sustainable Environment, Deepa Badrinarayana Oct 2023

To Have And To Be: An International Human Right To Clean, Healthy, And Sustainable Environment, Deepa Badrinarayana

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

In July 2022, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 76/300 (“the Resolution”)—affirming a human right to clean, healthy, and sustainable environment (“environmental human rights”). The Resolution essentially affirms a linkage between environmental human rights and “other rights and existing international law,” and “calls upon States, international organizations, business enterprises and other relevant stakeholders to adopt policies, to enhance international cooperation, strengthen capacity-building and continue to share good practices,” to achieve environmental human rights.

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This Article offers a glass half-full perspective on the Resolution, with the caveat that the glass could rapidly become empty unless the right is internalized …


How Many More Brazilian Environmental Defenders Have To Perish Before We Act? President Lula's Challenge To Protect Environmental Quilombola Defenders, Sarah Dávila A. Apr 2023

How Many More Brazilian Environmental Defenders Have To Perish Before We Act? President Lula's Challenge To Protect Environmental Quilombola Defenders, Sarah Dávila A.

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

The Global South has been historically marginalized and continues to suffer from systemic oppression, impeding the realization of their human rights. Afro-descendants and other minority populations in the Global South live in disproportionately environmentally unsafe conditions and are disproportionately more vulnerable to climate change and environmental harm. One of those populations are Quilombolas. Quilombolas are Brazilian Afro-descendant communities who continue to fight to protect their community rights to ancestral lands, natural resources, and survival as a people. The Brazilian government under former Brazilian President Bolsonaro engaged in a persistent and systematic campaign to target, attack, and kill defenders, including Quilombola …


Water Privatization Trends In The United States: Human Rights, National Security, And Public Stewardship, Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold Apr 2009

Water Privatization Trends In The United States: Human Rights, National Security, And Public Stewardship, Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Introduction To The Symposium: Linking The Environment And Human Rights: A Global Perspective, Stephen T. Del Percio Oct 2004

Introduction To The Symposium: Linking The Environment And Human Rights: A Global Perspective, Stephen T. Del Percio

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Placing Blame Where Blame Is Due: The Culpability Of Illegal Armed Groups And Narcotraffickers In Colombia's Environmental And Human Rights Catastrophes, Luz E. Nagle Oct 2004

Placing Blame Where Blame Is Due: The Culpability Of Illegal Armed Groups And Narcotraffickers In Colombia's Environmental And Human Rights Catastrophes, Luz E. Nagle

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.