Human Rights: The Commons and the Collective - Rilegato

Westra, Laura

 
9780774821179: Human Rights: The Commons and the Collective

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International law evolved to protect human rights. But what are human rights? Does the term have the same meaning in a world being transformed by climate change and globalized trade? Are existing laws sufficient to ensure humanity’s survival? Westra argues that international law privileges individual over collective rights, permitting multinational corporations to overlook the collectivity and the environment in their quest for wealth. Unless policy makers redefine human rights and reformulate environmental law to protect the preconditions for life itself - water, food, clean air, and biodiversity - humankind faces the complete loss of the ecological commons, one of our most basic human rights.

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9780774821186: Human Rights: The Commons and the Collective

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ISBN 10:  0774821183 ISBN 13:  9780774821186
Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2012
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