PHM-Exch> New resource: The Human Right to Water' by Inga T Winkler

[Claudio Schuftan]

LIBRO: EL dERCHO HUMANO AL AGUA
LIVRE: LE DROIT HUMAINE A L'EAU.

From: Rebecca Brown <rbrown at escr-net.org>
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*The Human Right to Water** *by Inga T Winkler.* *Full details are shown
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To read the introduction and table of contents please click on the links
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*Introduction: *http://www.hartpub.co.uk/pdf/samples/9781849462839sample.pdf
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*Contents: *http://www.hartpub.co.uk/pdf/9781849462839.pdf****

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*The Human Right to Water*

*Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation*

*Inga T Winkler*****

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The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised
the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue
high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions
unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and
meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal
foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State
obligations.****

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The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution
of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water
into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages
and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their
realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting
societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the
well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the
most basic needs of all people. The human right to water has the potential
to address these underlying structural causes of the lack of access to
water rooted in inequalities and poverty by empowering people to hold the
State accountable to live up to its human rights obligations and to demand
that their basic needs are met with priority.****

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*The Author*

*Inga T Winkler* is a Legal Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the
Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation based at the German
Institute for Human Rights. She is also a lecturer at the University of
Düsseldorf, Germany.****

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