El agua como derecho humano y derecho fundamental

El agua como derecho humano y derecho fundamental
Author: Añaños Bedriñana, Karen Giovanna
Publisher: J.M Bosch
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 8410044552

El objetivo de la presente obra colectiva es proponer una serie de nuevas ideas y de reflexiones sobre una temática crucial en la vida de todos y todas, de preocupación global y parte de la agenda internacional, como es el agua (fuente de vida del que emana toda la existencia de nuestro planeta), y su reconocimiento como derecho humano y derecho fundamental, en particular, en América Latina. Se ha elegido esta parte de la Región por ser el principal proveedor de recursos naturales y poseer la mayor reserva de agua dulce en el mundo (Brasil, Colombia y Perú). La peculiaridad de esta obra es que cuenta con diferentes enfoques y propuestas fundamentadas, planteada por académicos(as) y profesionales expertos(as) en Derecho Internacional Público y en Derecho Constitucional Latinoamericano. En ese sentido, el libro tiene una perspectiva jurídica, política, social, económica y ambiental, que permite visibilizar la trascendencia del reconocimiento a nivel internacional y la incorporación del derecho al agua en el Derecho interno de los países, haciendo un especial hincapié en: México, Perú, Brasil, El Salvador, entre otros. La estructura de la obra gira en torno a tres ejes: 1) El derecho humano al agua desde una perspectiva internacional; 2) El derecho fundamental al agua desde una perspectiva constitucional; y, 3) El análisis jurisprudencial de tribunales internacionales y nacionales. En efecto, en primer lugar, se enfatiza en los diferentes instrumentos jurídicos internacionales y la Agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas y sus Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), especialmente en el ODS 6, que aboga por la garantía de la disponibilidad del agua, su gestión sostenible y el saneamiento para todos y todas. En segundo lugar, al incorporar al agua como derecho fundamental en los textos constitucionales de los ordenamientos estatales, se asegura su protección y se exige la implementación de políticas públicas adecuadas, sostenibles e igualitarias en términos de gestión y distribución, adaptadas a la realidad de cada sociedad y sin dejar a nadie atrás ni discriminar a ningún sector de la población, responsabilidad que recae en los Estados. En consecuencia, los Estados tienen la obligación de proveer a sus ciudadanos y sus ciudadanas el acceso al agua y el saneamiento, como condición mínima en el marco del desarrollo y la evolución de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales. Y, en tercer lugar, es loable y determinante la labor jurisprudencial de los tribunales internacionales, como el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos y la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, así como de los tribunales nacionales, por ejemplo, es el caso de los tribunales constitucionales, que desempeñan un rol decisivo en el amparo del derecho al agua, a modo de garantes y protectores de las necesidades básicas de todo ser humano, como es el derecho a la vida, que está intrínsicamente vinculado al agua.

Challenges of Human Rights in Latin America

Challenges of Human Rights in Latin America
Author: César Landa
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2018-11-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1527521036

Latin America offers a democratic and constitutional process, with the goals to respect fundamental human rights and control the excess of power. Nevertheless, the weaknesses of the rule of law’s institutions does not guarantee for all citizens the protection of old and new rights. In this sense, the Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference organized by the Inter-American Network on Fundamental Rights and Democracy (RED–IDD) is an annual meeting of professors and researchers from the different universities of Latin America, addressing topics of particular importance regarding the possibilities and challenges of the consolidation of the constitutional state in the region. This book presents the minutes of the Fourth Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference, and explores topics such as political rights and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America; impeachment and judicial guarantees; the challenges of freedom of information: and judicial protection and due process, amongst others.

The Right to Water

The Right to Water
Author: Farhana Sultana
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1136518649

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 38 (2022) (VOLUME IV)

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 38 (2022) (VOLUME IV)
Author: Inter-American Comm. on Human Rights
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 900
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004715258

The 2022 Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights provides an extract of the principal jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Part One contains the Decisions on the Merits of the Commission, and Part Two the Judgments and Decisions of the Court. The Yearbook is partly published as an English-Spanish bilingual edition. Some parts are in English or Spanish only. NB: This book is part of a four volume set. Vol. 1 ISBN: 978-90-04-71518-9 Vol. 2 ISBN: 978-90-04-71520-2 Vol. 3 ISBN: 978-90-04-71522-6 Vol. 4 ISBN: 978-90-04-71524-0

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 36 (2020) (VOLUME II)

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 36 (2020) (VOLUME II)
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 843
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004509925

This Yearbook aims to contribute to a greater awareness of the functions and activities of the organs of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights. The Yearbook is partly published as an English-Spanish bilingual edition. NB: This book is part of a three volume set. Each volume should be ordered separately!Vol 1 isbn 978-90-04-44560-4Vol 2 isbn 978-90-04-50440-0Vol 3 isbn 978-90-04-50991-7

Latin America and international investment law

Latin America and international investment law
Author: Sufyan Droubi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1526155060

Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law. While some governments and non-state actors have remained true to the Latin American tradition of resistance towards the international investment law regime, other governments and actors have sought to accommodate said regime in the region. Consequently, a profusion of theories and doctrines, too often embedded in clashing narratives, has emerged. In Latin America, the practice of international investment law is the vivid amalgamation of the practice of governments sometimes resisting and sometimes welcoming mainstream approaches; the practice of lawyers assisting foreign investors from outside and within the region; and the practice of civil society, indigenous peoples and other actors in their struggle for human rights and sustainable development. Latin America and international investment law describes the complex roles that governments have played vis-à-vis foreign investors and investments; the refreshing but clashing forces that international organizations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples have brought to the field; and the contribution that Latin America has made to the development of the theory and practice of international investment law, notably in fields in which the Latin American experience has been traumatic: human rights and sustainable development. Latin American scholars have been contributing to the theory of international investment law for over a century; resting on the shoulders of true giants, this volume aims at pushing this contribution a little further.