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LEAD Journal |
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The first issue of LEAD Journal (Law, Environment And Development) a peer-reviewed academic publication will be published in August. This exciting new project is jointly managed by the Law Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London and IELRC.
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Submissions for the first issue will be accepted until 30 June. For further information, log on to the journal website at www.lead-journal.org
or click here.
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IELRC Expertise
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International and national expertise to the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD
Preparation of a background paper on
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intellectual property protection
strategies to NEPAD's Steering Committee for Science and Technology
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Tsunami Relief Effor: in the wake of the tsunami, IELRC has been able to leverage its position in some affected countries and particularly India to assess the relief effort and identify the relationship between law and
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natural disaster.
These "travel notes" summarise the issues that have surfaced so far.
> read more
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Discussion Panel/ Book Launch on "Whose Rules of the Game? Bioprospecting and Drug Research in Developing Countries" UNU Institute for New Technologies/ International Commission on Trade and Sustainable Development |
Conference Room 5, United Nations, New York, 19 April 2005
> UNU website (including audio - MP3 recording of the event)
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Water & Global Security: Integrating Environmental Peacemaking in the
Reforms of the United Nations.
Side-event at the Commission on Sustainable Development.
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Friday, April 22, Conference Room 2, 1:15pm - 2:45pm, UN Headquarters
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Indian Special Dossiers |
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Narmada
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of India has been an important victory for S. Muralidhar and the people he represents in the Sardar Sarovar Case... |
> special dossier Narmada |
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Bhopal
The landmark 2004 order has been followed by further judicial activity in recent months |
> special dossier Bhopal |
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New researchers at IELRC
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Christine FRISON joined IELRC as Research Associate. She holds an LLM in International and Trade Law from Lyon 1 University, an LLM in Public International Law from Brussels University and an LLB and a BA in English and Italian from Montpellier University), Dip. (Lyon I, American Law), Dip. (Nottingham Trent, English Law). |
Her primary research area is public international law, with a particular focus on environmental law especially biodiversity and biosafety issues.
She is currently working on issues of access and
benefit-sharing, in particular in the context of the FAO Treaty on Plant
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Pooja AHLUWALIA joined IELRC India as Research Associate. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex and an LLB and a B.Com. from the University of Delhi. She has been working as a Legal Officer at the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation Secretariat in New Delhi and worked earlier as a Legal |
Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New Delhi.
She now works on a variety of research projects at the
Delhi office, including a new project on regulatory aspects of water
privatisation
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New Publications |
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Monsanto v Schmeiser: A Landmark Decision concerning Farmer Liability and transgenic Contamination
This case, published in the Journal of Environmental Law, analyses the landmark decision of the Canadian Supreme
Court in Monsanto v Schmeiser.
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Access to Justice by Disadvantaged Groups
... there are two basic purposes that are intended to be served by providing access to justice: one is to ensure that every person is able to invoke legal processes for redress irrespective of social or economic status or other incapacity, and the other is to ensure that every person should receive just and fair treatment within the legal system.
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Background Paper for the Expert Seminar on Democracy and the Rule of Law, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva 28 February-2 March 2005
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Gender, Conflict and Regional Security
This article examines the gender dynamics in regional security. It argues that gender as a relational concept, contributes significantly to an understanding of the causes and
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impacts of insecurity, and is also a critical factor in the search for solutions to insecurity.
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Towards Greater Access to Justice in Environmental Disputes in Kenya: Opportunities for Intervention
Concern for the environment has increased over the years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Kenya has signed, acceded to or ratified many international instruments providing for access to justice for its citizenry generally and in
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environmental decision-making specifically.
Access to justice in environmental decision-making is secured through the incorporation of environmental procedural rights in emerging international and regional instruments. These provisions are then deposited in national legislations to give them effect at that level (...)
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