Defending the Environment: Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law

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Island Press, 2006. gada 28. febr. - 384 lappuses

Defending the Environment provides the means for nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and individuals to bring environmental and public health problems to the attention of international courts, tribunals, and commissions, or to their domestic counterparts. It suggests specific strategies and provides detailed information for taking action. This revised and updated edition also contains new case studies of the application of those strategies that has occurred in recent years.

Each chapter provides a description of the institutional mechanisms that can potentially receive, review, and remedy the alleged violation, along with a set of guidelines that explain how the reader can employ a particular strategy, and an example that indicates the effectiveness of a given strategy. In addition, the book offers an appendix that lists individuals and organizations who can assist with the various strategies described.

Defending the Environment represents the first concise, comprehensive guide to international environmental law and institutions that offers readers hands-on strategies for addressing environmental and public health problems.

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Introduction
1
Exercising Environmental Human Rights and Remedies in the United Nations and Regional Systems
9
Advocating for International Finance and Trade Institutions to Adhere to Environmental and Public Health Standards
131
Preventing New International Trade and Investment Dispute Resolution Mechanisme From Undermining Current Environmental and Public Health R...
167
Encouraging Secretariats of Multilateral Environmental and Public Health Agreements to Enforce Current International Environmental Standards
189
Enforcing International Environmental Law in Tribunals of General Jurisdiction
221
Enforcing Environmental Law Through Domestic Law Mechanisms
249
Conclusion
289
List of Practitioner Experts
297
Bibliography
313
Index
341
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234. lappuse - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
17. lappuse - The Economic and Social Council may make suitable arrangements for consultation with nongovernmental organizations which are concerned with matters within its competence. Such arrangements may be made with international organizations and, where appropriate, with national organizations after consultation with the Member of the United Nations concerned.
117. lappuse - Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde...
64. lappuse - Every Member of the Council of Europe must accept the principles of the rule of law and of the enjoyment by all persons within its jurisdiction of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and collaborate sincerely and effectively in the realisation of the aim of the Council as specified in Chapter I.
227. lappuse - States, acting especially through competent international organizations or diplomatic conference, shall endeavour to establish global and regional rules, standards and recommended practices and procedures to prevent, reduce and control such pollution.
25. lappuse - Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the present Covenant by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures.
118. lappuse - Dominica. Dominican Republic. Ecuador. El Salvador. Grenada. Guatemala. Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.
54. lappuse - Commission ; (b) it shall place itself at the disposal of the parties concerned with a view to securing a friendly settlement of the matter on the basis of respect for Human Rights as defined in this Convention.
70. lappuse - A state violates international law if, as a matter of state policy, it practices, encourages or condones: (a) genocide (b) slavery or slave trade (c) the murder or causing the disappearance of individuals (d) torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (e) prolonged arbitrary detention (f) systematic racial discrimination (g) a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights

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Linda Malone is currently Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary. She is the author of numerous books including several books on international law, human rights, and environmental law. She has previously taught at Duke University, University of Virginia, and Washington and Lee law schools among others. She has served on numerous international committees.

Scott Pasternack is Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city of New York. He was previously Klipstein Fellow in the International Law program at Earthjustice.

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