Environment
Environment and Human Rights: conference report
Malte Stovring, Forum Syd, 2005.
During October 2005, more than 185 people were gathered in Phnom Penh to discuss human rights and the environment in the Mekong region. The objectives of the conference were to present a platform for exchange of knowledge and experiences of human rights and environmental work within the Mekong region and to discuss how regional efforts to build linkages between human rights and environment work can be strengthened. Understanding this context provides valuable information for consolidating human rights-based approaches with respect to environmental policies.
Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation
Prepared by: African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, UK Department for International Development, European Commission Directorate-General for Development, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Development Cooperation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and the World Bank, 2003.
A Rights-Based Approach to Public Participation and Local Management of Natural Resources
Professor Dinah Shelton, Notre Dame University Law School.
National and international governing bodies continue to be resistant to implementing environmental convention policies. As a result, this paper asserts that the best way to encourage environmental preservation is to inspire the public to push past merely voicing opinions and to instead create a movement for innovative forms of local management. Allowing for a rights- based approach to public participation and local management will allow for a greater preservation of natural resources. This approach is specifically discussed in terms of benefits for indigenous groups and farmers- two groups that are particularly suffering under the current system of resource management.
Integration of Rights into Thematic Areas: A Rights-Based Approach to Environment
UNDP.
This short article targets problems associated with urbanization, industrialization, and poverty in the Asia- Pacific region. In doing this, various forms of environmental degradation are examined in the context of rights- holder’s livelihoods. It is the goal of this article to assist in the protection of natural resources and the rights associated with these resources by suggesting possible courses of action for advocating change.