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).

The following publications examine 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.
 
 
 

Books and Edited Books on Justice & Human Rights
 
Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law
author(s): Philippe Cullet
date: 2003

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Selected Academic Publications on Justice & Human Rights
 
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South

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Reconfiguring Legal Education to Deepen Gender Equality: Mainstreaming Gender Through Curriculum Review at the School of Law University of Nairobi

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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in Kenya

abstract      full text  689 [KB]
 
Constitutions as Pathways to Gender Equality in Plural Legal Contexts

abstract      full text  1518 [KB]
 
Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps

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Principle 7 - Common but Differentiated Responsibilities

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Integrating Human Rights in Program Evaluation: Lessons from Law and Health Programs in Kenya

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Le principe des responsabilites communes mais differenciees en droit international de l'environnement: enjeux et perspectives

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Access to Justice: Evaluating Law, Health and Human Rights Programmes in Kenya

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Land Acquisition, Eminent Domain and the 2011 Bill

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Kenya: Justice Sector and the Rule of Law

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The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability: human rights and equity dimensions

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A Unique Identity Bill

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Environment and Development - The Missing Link

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Courts as Champions of Sustainable Development: Lessons from East Africa

abstract      full text  375 [KB]
 
Evolution of the Law on Child Labor in India

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Environmental Justice in the Use, Knowledge and Exploitation of Genetic Resources

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Kenya (Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Governance)

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Ostensible Poverty, Beggary and the Law

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Human Rights and Intellectual Property Protection in the TRIPS Era

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Illegality and the Urban Poor

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Water Investments and the Participation of Local Communities

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India and the ICC

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Demolition Drive

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Patents and Medicines: The Relationship Between TRIPS and the Human Right to Health

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Improving Tools and Techniques for Crisis Management - The Ecological Sources of Conflict: Experiences from Eastern Africa

abstract      full text  345 [KB]
 
The Environmental Accountability of the World Bank to Non-State Actors: Insights from the Inspection Panel

abstract      full text  211 [KB]
 
Differential Treatment in International Law: Towards a new Paradigm of Inter-State Relations

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Hang them Now, Hang Them not - India's Travails with the Death Penalty

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Displacement and the Law

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Definition of an environmental right in a human rights context

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Working Papers on Justice and Human Rights
 
Gendered Impacts of Responses to The COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya

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Changing the Mainstream - Celebrating Women's Resilience

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Fallacies of Equality and Inequality: Multiple Exclusions in Law and Legal Discourses

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A State of Surveillance

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Site Inspection Report - Bauxite Mining in Kalahandi and Rayagada Districts (Orissa Mining Corporation)

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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

abstract      full text  239 [KB]
 
Implementation of Court Orders in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An Overview of the experience of the Indian Judiciary

abstract      full text  366 [KB]
 
The Operational Environment and Constraints for NGOs in Kenya: Strategies for Good Policy and Practice

abstract      full text  516 [KB]
 
Strategic Planning and Implementation of Public Involvement in Environmental Decision-making as the Relate to Environmental Impact Assessment in Kenya

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Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development: Integrating Local Communities in Environmental Management

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Droits de solidarité en droit international

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Other Contributions on Justice and Human Rights
 
Futile Penalty (2012)
 
Innocent Convicts (2012)
 
Implications of registering, tracking, profiling (2010)
 
The personal is the personal (2010)
 
Bhopal: An unsettling settlement (2010)
 
Rehabilitation: where the truth lies (2006)
 
Creating dispensable citizens (2006)
 
The Doha Declaration of the WTO and Access to Medicines (2002)
 
   
   
   
 
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