Recent Articles
APR 27, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 3 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Twilight People: Iraq's Marsh Inhabitants
Saddam Hussein drained Iraq's southern marshlands as part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the lives of the region's indigenous inhabitants. As Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi ...
APR 27, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 3 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Mining a Sacred Land
Walton describes Freeport McMoRan's devastation of the Amungme and Kamoro people in Papua in what has become one of the best known cases of environmental ...
APR 27, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 3 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Commentary on "The relationship between environmental rights and environmental
Atik examines the issues addressed in this section through claims of (1) environmental justice, (2) environmental human rights, and (3) “strong environmental rights,” the rights of the natural ...
APR 27, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 4 THE ENFORCEABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS: Environmental Rights Enforcement in U.S. Courts
Osofsky notes that, unless advocates can convince courts to accept a characterization of these problems as violations of international law, victims of severe ...
APR 27, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 4 THE ENFORCEABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS: Defending Environmental Defenders
Folabi K. Olagbaju and Stephen Mills detail how two leading American grassroots organizations -- Amnesty International USA and Sierra Club -- joined hands to protect ...
APR 27, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: Online Exclusives: A Choice for Indigenous Communities in the Philippines
When an indigenous community is determined to protect its natural resources and rights, when a legal framework supports their rights, and when assistance is available ...
APR 26, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 2 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM: Commentary on "The conflict between rights and environmentalism"
The essays in this section vividly illustrate that certain specific efforts to protect the environment from the “bio-degenerative consequences of human action” can run ...
APR 26, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: Online Exclusives: Interview with Cristobal Osorio Sanchez
Sánchez is a survivor of massacres perpetrated against the Maya-Achí community of Rio Negro, Guatemala, and one of the Chixoy Dam-affected people. He is ...
APR 23, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 2 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM: Workers' Rights and Pollution Control in Delhi
According to Kelly D. Alley and Daniel Meadows, India's judicial efforts to protect the "right to life" by shutting down and relocating polluting industries in ...
APR 23, 2004 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 2 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM: Environmental Rights vs. Cultural Rights
As Alison Dundes Renteln demonstrates, protecting cultural rights and endangered species requires a delicate balancing act.