The extraterritorial application of the human right to water in Africa / Takele Soboka Bulto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulto, Takele Soboka, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right to water--Africa.

Right to water.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

International human rights law has only recently concerned itself with water. Instead, international water law has regulated the use of shared rivers, and only states qua states could claim rights and bear duties towards each other. International human rights law has focused on its principal mission of taming the powers of a state acting territorially. Takele Soboka Bulto challenges the established analytic boundaries of international water law and international human rights law. By demonstrating the potential complementarity between the two legal regimes and the ensuing utility of regime coordination for the establishment of the human right to water and its extraterritorial application, he also shows that human rights law and the international law of watercourses can apply in tandem with the purpose of protecting non-national non-residents in Africa and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction

The human right to water at the global level

The human right to water in the African human rights system

The human right to water and states' domestic obligations

The human right to water and states' extraterritorial obligations

Extraterritoriality of the human right to water in international water law

The human right to water and extraterritorial remedies

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89229-0

1-107-50221-7

1-107-50086-9

1-107-50629-8

1-107-51392-8

1-107-49671-3

1-107-51671-4

1-107-50363-9

1-139-38121-0

OCLC:

870946493