The Right of the Child to a Clean Environment

2017-11-30
The Right of the Child to a Clean Environment

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  • Author: Agata Fijalkowski
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351781626
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 363

This title was first published in 2000: A discussion on the right of a child to a clean environment. It links two important contemporary issues: human rights and the environment. The volume consists of the extended versions of some of the papers which were presented at a workshop on "The Right of a Child to a Clean Environment", held at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, in 1997, and there are also some additional contributions. The workshop participants included Michael Anderson and Sylvia Bluck, Harry Post, Holly Cullen and Olufemi Elias. The additional contributors include Veronic Wright, Maria G. Doglioli and Soledad Aguilar. There are essays on general issues, selected case studies and annexes.

A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment

2010-09-15
A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment

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  • Author: James Garbarino
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 1441967915
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children’s well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally. Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children’s lives, factors as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children’s rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to children’s development, including: War and natural disasters. Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning). The child obesity epidemic. Gun violence. Child slavery and trafficking. Toxic elements in contemporary culture. A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children’s lives.

The Rights of the Child and the Changing Image of Childhood

1992-05-26
The Rights of the Child and the Changing Image of Childhood

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  • Author: Philip E. Veerman
  • Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780792312505
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 682

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A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment

2010-09-23
A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment

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  • Author: James Garbarino
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9781441967893
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children’s well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally. Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children’s lives, factors as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children’s rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to children’s development, including: War and natural disasters. Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning). The child obesity epidemic. Gun violence. Child slavery and trafficking. Toxic elements in contemporary culture. A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children’s lives.

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

2018-06-30
The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

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  • Author: John H. Knox
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108369294
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

The absence of a globally recognized right to a healthy environment has not prevented the development of human rights norms relating to the environment. Indeed, one of the most noteworthy aspects of human rights law over the last twenty years is that UN treaty bodies, regional tribunals, special rapporteurs, and other human rights mechanisms have applied human rights law to environmental issues even without a stand-alone, justiciable human right to a healthy environment. In The Human Right to a Healthy Environment, a diverse set of scholars and practitioners, all of whom have been instrumental in defining the relationship between human rights and the environment, provide their thoughts on what is, or should be, the role of an international human right to a healthy environment. The right to a healthy environment could be a capstone to this field of law, could help to provide structure to it, or could move it in new directions.

The Right to a Healthy Environment

2012-10-03
The Right to a Healthy Environment

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  • Author: David R. Boyd
  • Publisher: UBC Press
  • ISBN: 0774824158
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.

Children and the Environment

2022-11-28
Children and the Environment

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  • Author: Angeliki Papantoniou
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004530088
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

This work provides a unique legal perspective on the global, topical issue of children and the environment.

Children’s Environmental Rights Under International and EU Law

2022-11-07
Children’s Environmental Rights Under International and EU Law

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  • Author: Francesca Ippolito
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9462655472
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 346

This book is dedicated to a topic which has for a long time lacked the attention it deserves within the academic world. It intends to address in a coherent and comprehensive manner the problem of the environmental rights of the child, which are not identical to the ones of adults whose environmental rights have been appraised from a general point of view. In the absence of any international law instrument explicitly granting a child the right to a clean environment, drawing on an extensive and original analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the practice of its monitoring body, this book undertakes an assessment of the extent to which these challenges may be overcome through a greater engagement between international law on the rights of the child and international environmental law. The result is the first comprehensive study on the manner in which these two mutually reinforcing legal regimes can interact to strengthen the protection of children’s environmental human rights at stake in the increased strategic environmental and climate litigations at both the national and international level. The book is recommended reading for, amongst others, policy makers, international environmental lawyers and human rights lawyers and practitioners. Additionally, lecturers, students and researchers from a range of disciplines will also gain from seeing how new legal scholarship and intertwined branches of international law contribute to the continual development of the living rights of the human rights conventions. Francesca Ippolito is Associate Professor of International Law in the Department of Political and Social Science of the University of Cagliari, Italy. She holds the Jean Monnet Chair on European Climate of Change - REACT for 2021-2024.

Resolutions and recommendations: World Conservation Congress, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 6-15 September 2012

Resolutions and recommendations: World Conservation Congress, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 6-15 September 2012

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  • Publisher: IUCN
  • ISBN: 2831715768
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

Children's Rights Law in the Global Human Rights Landscape

2017-04-21
Children's Rights Law in the Global Human Rights Landscape

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  • Author: Eva Brems
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317268040
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. Children’s rights law has a number of distinctive characteristics, such as the emphasis on the ‘best interests of the child’, the use of general principles, and the inclusion of ‘third parties’ (e.g. parents and other care-takers) in treaty provisions. The first part of this book questions whether these features could be a source of inspiration for general human rights law. In part two, the reverse question is asked: could children’s rights law draw inspiration from developments in other branches of human rights law that focus on other specific categories of rights holders, such as women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, or older persons? Finally, the interaction between children’s rights law and human rights law – and the potential for their isolation, inspiration or integration – may be coloured or determined by the thematic issue under consideration. Therefore the third part of the book studies the interplay between children’s rights law and human rights law in the context of specific topics: intra-family relations, LGBTQI marginalization, migration, media, the environment and transnational human rights obligations.