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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"human rights theory"”.
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Water for all : an analysis of a human rights based approach to water access
… study was undertaken to determine whether a human rights based approach would ensure each person's access to a water supply sufficient to meet her basic needs. A human right to water shows promise as a strategy for ensuring universal access to water if a broad, comprehensive human rights …
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No Common Ground: Competing Worldviews at Mato Tipila
… – albeit secularized – discourse of "rights." The cognitional categories used to define rights with respect to both natives and non-natives at this place are rooted in eurochristian culture and are for that reason inadequate to encompass the diversity of commitments at stake. The …
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Towards the environmental minimum: an argument for environmental protection through human rights
… Chapter two lays out the current scholarship on human rights and the environment and presents rejoinders to three prominent lines of objection to linking human rights and environmental interests: conceptual, those arising from issues of recognition, vagueness and conflicts between human rights, …
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Towards a Theory of Human Rights in Practice: The Role of Plastic Human Rights and International Human Rights Obligations in the UN’s Approach to Cholera in Haiti
… contributes a socio-legal perspective on human rights in practice. The dissertation examines how and why the UN’s international human rights obligations did not gain traction in the reality of the peace operation in Haiti and the organisation’s response to the cholera crisis. The analysis …