El derecho humano al agua en el derecho jurisprudencial de la Corte Constitucional de Colombia
El derecho humano al agua en el derecho jurisprudencial de la Corte Constitucional de Colombia

Author: Juan David Ubajoa Osso

Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13: 9587724895

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Juan David Ubajoa, autor de la investigación, no desconoce la evolución del derecho humano al agua desde los reconocimientos normativos en cuanto al uso común, el abastecimiento a poblaciones y el servicio público, así como la ratificación de diferen¬tes tratados y convenios internacionales y la aceptación de principios consagrados en diferentes declaraciones mundiales. Sin embargo, en razón a la relevancia de los pro-nunciamientos de la Corte Constitucional sobre el reconocimiento al derecho humano al agua, el autor decide priorizar en su investigación el camino que la Corte Constitucional ha recorrido para proteger este derecho, al afirmar, con base en la jurisprudencia anali¬zada, que la prestación del servicio público domiciliario de acueducto y alcantarillado es la mejor forma de lograr la satisfacción del derecho humano al agua. Esta premisa es validada por el autor a lo largo de su escrito, ya que con fundamento en el análisis que realiza deduce que existe un vínculo entre el derecho al agua y los servicios públicos de acueducto y alcantarillado, y que es la prestación de estos servicios "la mejor vía" para satisfacer este derecho humano básico y lograr la dignidad propia de un Estado social de derecho.

El Derecho fundamental al agua potable
El Derecho fundamental al agua potable

Author: Hugo Escobar Fernández de Castro

Publisher: Ediciones Olejnik

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9563925025

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"Dentro del conjunto de bienes jurídicos susceptibles de protección en el nuevo entorno constitucional, el derecho al agua ocupa un lugar preponderante. Como bien se indica por el autor, el establecimiento de ese específico derecho en nuestro ordenamiento se deriva de su reconocimiento por la comunidad internacional, que lo ha incluido dentro del catálogo de derechos económicos, sociales y culturales del hombre, así como en diferentes pactos y convenios internacionales sobre derechos humanos, de todo lo cual se da cuenta en la obra. Se hace notar cómo el derecho al agua puede considerarse incluido ya en el Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales, a partir, puntualmente, de sus artículos 11 y 12, tal y como se puso de presente por el Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales de Naciones Unidas–órgano que ejecuta y hace cumplir la normatividad del pacto, en su observación número décimo quinta denominada, precisamente “El derecho al agua”. Luis Guillermo Guerrero Pérez. Presidente de la Corte Constitucional. de Colombia (2017-2018).

International Environmental Law and the Global South
International Environmental Law and the Global South

Author: Shawkat Alam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1316352110

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The unprecedented degradation of the planet's vital ecosystems is among the most pressing issues confronting the international community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations (the North-South divide) have compromised international environmental law, leading to deadlocks in environmental treaty negotiations and noncompliance with existing agreements. This volume examines both the historical origins of the North-South divide in European colonialism as well as its contemporary manifestations in a range of issues including food justice, energy justice, indigenous rights, trade, investment, extractive industries, human rights, land grabs, hazardous waste, and climate change. Born out of the recognition that global inequality and profligate consumerism present threats to a sustainable planet, this book makes a unique contribution to international environmental law by emphasizing the priorities and perspectives of the global South.

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation
Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation

Author: Elizabeth Jane Macpherson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1108473067

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A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.

Global Environmental Constitutionalism
Global Environmental Constitutionalism

Author: James R. May

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1107022258

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Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.

When Rights Embrace Responsibilities
When Rights Embrace Responsibilities

Author: Giulia Sajeva

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-04-16

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0199091897

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The conservation of environment and the protection of human rights are two of the most compelling needs of our time. Unfortunately, they are not always easy to combine and too often result in mutual harm. This book analyses the idea of biocultural rights as a proposal for harmonizing the needs of environmental and human rights. These rights, considered as a basket of group rights, are those deemed necessary to protect the stewardship role that certain indigenous peoples and local communities have played towards the environment. With a view to understanding the value and merits, as well as the threats that biocultural rights entail, the book critically assesses their foundations, content, and implications, and develops new perspectives and ideas concerning their potential applicability for promoting the socio-economic interests of indigenous people and local communities. It further explores the controversial relationship of interdependence and conflict between conservation of environment and protection of human rights.

Agua y derecho constitucional en Colombia. Volumen I,
Agua y derecho constitucional en Colombia. Volumen I,

Author: Óscar Darío Amaya Navas

Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9587900073

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Esta monografía de investigación pretende abordar la construcción jurídica del derecho al agua como un derecho fundamental y como un derecho humano, desde la perspectiva del Derecho constitucional. El agua ha sido un tema fundamental desde los inicios de la historia constitucional del país, y si bien la configuración jurídica actual es diferente a la señalada en las constituciones previas a la de 1991, las distintas formas de reconocimiento reflejan los cambios y las necesidades de la sociedad y de la población, que van causando la obligación de precisiones, evolución y sofisticación en el régimen jurídico del agua. Con este propósito, la obra se divide en tres capítulos: el primero nos habla sobre la historia constitucional de la protección del recurso hídrico; el segundo se refiere a la relación entre el agua y los derechos humanos en Colombia en perspectiva constitucional; y el tercero alude a la relación entre el agua y los servicios públicos, es decir, la forma como se materializa el suministro de agua a la población, y el consecuente esquema de vertimientos, también desde la arista constitucional.

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Author: Adam Winkler

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0871403846

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National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A PBS “Now Read This” Book Club Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.