Are International Human Rights Instruments Effective In Protecting People’s Rights from the Global Effects of Climate Change?


Master's Thesis, 2017

43 Pages, Grade: A


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Abstract

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Theoretical Framework of Climate Change
I- What is Climate Change: Causes and Consequences
A- Climate change defined
B- The Causes of Climate change
C- Consequences of Climate Change
II- Climate change and Capitalism

Chapter Two: Human Rights Implications of Climate Change
I-The Linkage between Climate Change and Human Rights
II-The Impact of Climate Change on Specific Rights
A- The Right to Life
B- The right to health
C- The right to food
D- The right to water and sanitation
E- The Right to Adequate housing
F- Right to Self-Determination

Chapter Three: International Human Rights Duties Regarding the Global Effects of Climate Change
I- International Human Rights Duties of States in the ICCPR
II- International Human Rights Duties in the ICESCR
A- Duties to respect
B- Duties to protect
C- Duties to fulfill

III- Practical Difficulties to the Application of Human Rights Duties Extraterritorially

Chapter Four: Additional Suggestions to the Human Rights Approach to the Global Impacts of Climate Change
I- Basing International Human Rights Law Approach on International Cooperation
II- The Creation of “A Right to a Healthy Environment” As a Human Right
III- Creation of an International Treaty relating to the status of environmental refugees

Conclusion

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Title
Are International Human Rights Instruments Effective In Protecting People’s Rights from the Global Effects of Climate Change?
College
Birkbeck, University of London
Grade
A
Author
Year
2017
Pages
43
Catalog Number
V385722
ISBN (eBook)
9783668608320
ISBN (Book)
9783668608337
File size
596 KB
Language
English
Keywords
international, human, rights, instruments, effective, protecting, people’s, global, effects, climate, change
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Nouha Rouabah (Author), 2017, Are International Human Rights Instruments Effective In Protecting People’s Rights from the Global Effects of Climate Change?, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/385722

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