The human right to water : legal and policy dimensions / / Salman M.A. Salman, Siobhan McInerney-Lankford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958306703321
• Autore: Salman Salman M. A. <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-08564-9; 9786610085644; 1-4175-4465-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 180 pages ; ; 23 cm
• Collana: Law, justice, and development
• Altri autori (Persone): McInerney-LankfordSiobhán <1974->
• Disciplina: 341.4/8
• Soggetti: Water rights; Human rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE Genesis of the Debate on the Right to Water -- PART TWO Evolution of the International Legal Regime for Human Rights -- Early Developments -- The International Covenants on Human Rights -- PART THREE General Comments Issued by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Evolution of the Role of the Committee and Its Early Comments -- General Comment No. 15-The Right to Water -- Derivation and Inference -- Centrality and Necessity -- Prior Recognition -- PART FOUR Legal and Policy Dimensions of General Comment No. 15 -- CONCLUSION -- Select Bibliography -- Appendix I Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Appendix II International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Appendix III International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Appendix IV Economic and Social Council Resolution 1985/17 on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Appendix V General Comment No. 15-The Right to Water -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Human Right to Water traces the issue of the right to water through a number of international legal instruments, particularly General Comment No. 15 which recognizes such a right. It analyzes the international legal regime for human rights, and argues that the nexus ; between development, water and human rights is well established therein. Although the central theme of the Study is General Comment No. 15 issued by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2002 which explicitly recognizes a human right to water, the Study argues that the Comment supports the idea that there is an incipient right to water emerging in international law today. This right is buttressed by a large number of soft law instruments, emerging customary international law, as well as an increasing number of domestic law instruments.