Realizing the Human Right to Water in Local Communities: An Actor-Oriented Analysis

2016 ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Human Right

scholarly journals Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Schroering
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
World System ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Transnational Organizing ◽  
Short Piece

In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I examine examples of transnational organizing around water and, specifically, the National Summit on the Human Right to Water held in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2019. A repeated theme at the Summit was the idea that privatization is a threat because the narrative of the profit-based solution of privatization is at odds with the idea that people—and their human right to basic needs like water—come before profit. Privatization is a threat to human rights everywhere,and as climate change progresses resources will become even more scarce, with more of a push from corporations seeking to control and commodify water. One of the most powerful short-term results of this summit, therefore, was how it served as a space forglobalsolidarity buildingaround the human right to water.

scholarly journals Religion and constitution. Some Hungarian perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Balázs Schanda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
National Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Basic Law

Freedom of religion shall be a universally recognized human right. States have developed highly different models with regard to their relations to religious communities. Some kind of neutrality of the state has to be preserved in order to provide due respect to all faiths. Derived from a religious heritage and beyond religious beliefs the cultural identity of peoples gains a rising signifficance. The historically determined identity of nations is expressed various ways including the public endorsement of the legacy shaped by religious communities. Beyond the national level and within their boundaries local communities express identities in various ways.  The Basic Law of Hungary (2011) is characterized by an open commitment to the religious roots of the national culture but maintains the respect for religious freedom and consequently also remains in the framework of religious neutrality.

Towards a Sustainable Human Right to Water

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphina Misiedjan
Keyword(s):  
Human Right

HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVITIES: CONCEPT AND MAIN FEATURES

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Artem Koptelov
Keyword(s):  
Human Right
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