scholarly journals Determining Operation Groundswell’s Future Business Directions for Sustainable Tourism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halina Charendoff
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Green Consumers ◽  
Carbon Offset ◽  
Future Business ◽  
Tour Operator

Operation Groundswell (OG) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) and tour operator that offers volunteer backpacking trips. This study evaluates two ways in which OG aims to achieve sustainable tourism: their approach to voluntourism and their carbon offset initiative. A qualitative consumer analysis was conducted to evaluate how OG can move forward as a facilitator of sustainable tourism utilizing 1) their approach to voluntourism and 2) their carbon offset initiative. Findings from this study reveal that OG’s carbon offset initiative should be made more prevalent and transparent on their website and in their marketing to attract green consumers, that they should continue to engage with voluntourism with a critical lens so as to emphasize how voluntourism can be accomplished in an ethically-just and sustainable manner, and that they should consider developing hybrid trip offerings that emphasize the interconnectedness of their four program themes of health, education, human rights and the environment.

scholarly journals Determining Operation Groundswell’s Future Business Directions for Sustainable Tourism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halina Charendoff
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Green Consumers ◽  
Carbon Offset ◽  
Future Business ◽  
Tour Operator

Operation Groundswell (OG) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) and tour operator that offers volunteer backpacking trips. This study evaluates two ways in which OG aims to achieve sustainable tourism: their approach to voluntourism and their carbon offset initiative. A qualitative consumer analysis was conducted to evaluate how OG can move forward as a facilitator of sustainable tourism utilizing 1) their approach to voluntourism and 2) their carbon offset initiative. Findings from this study reveal that OG’s carbon offset initiative should be made more prevalent and transparent on their website and in their marketing to attract green consumers, that they should continue to engage with voluntourism with a critical lens so as to emphasize how voluntourism can be accomplished in an ethically-just and sustainable manner, and that they should consider developing hybrid trip offerings that emphasize the interconnectedness of their four program themes of health, education, human rights and the environment.

Protecting Basic Legal Freedoms: International Legal Complexes, Accountability Devices, and the Deviant Case of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence C. Halliday ◽  
Shira Zilberstein ◽  
Wendy Espeland
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
Deviant Case ◽  
Collective Actor

With a focus on legal and other organizational actors beyond the state, this article seeks to expand the theory of conditions under which legal occupations will mobilize to fight for basic legal freedoms within states. It elaborates the line of scholarship on legal complexes and political liberalism within states since the 17th century. First, we catalog harms that international organizations (IOs) of many kinds seek to protect in the more than 190 states in the world. Second, we elaborate the concept of an international legal complex (ILC) as a collective actor in the global struggle for basic legal freedoms. We illustrate these two steps with new data on China drawn from a wider project. We show what harms mobilize the ILC, international human rights organizations (IHROs) and an international governmental organization, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). We focus on accountability devices as tools differentially deployed by the ILC, IOs, and UNHRC in their efforts to influence the institutionalization of basic legal freedoms, an open civil society, and a moderate state in China. The illustrative case of China provides a framework for research and theory on all other countries. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 17 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals The Human Right to Water and Unconventional Energy

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Palmer ◽  
Damien Short ◽  
Walter Auch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

Access to water, in sufficient quantities and of sufficient quality is vital for human health. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in General Comment 15, drafted 2002) argued that access to water was a condition for the enjoyment of the right to an adequate standard of living, inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of health, and thus a human right. On 28 July 2010 the United Nations General Assembly declared safe and clean drinking water and sanitation a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights. This paper charts the international legal development of the right to water and its relevance to discussions surrounding the growth of unconventional energy and its heavy reliance on water. We consider key data from the country with arguably the most mature and extensive industry, the USA, and highlight the implications for water usage and water rights. We conclude that, given the weight of testimony of local people from our research, along with data from scientific literature, non-governmental organization (NGO) and other policy reports, that the right to water for residents living near fracking sites is likely to be severely curtailed. Even so, from the data presented here, we argue that the major issue regarding water use is the shifting of the resource from society to industry and the demonstrable lack of supply-side price signal that would demand that the industry reduce or stabilize its water demand per unit of energy produced. Thus, in the US context alone, there is considerable evidence that the human right to water will be seriously undermined by the growth of the unconventional oil and gas industry, and given its spread around the globe this could soon become a global human rights issue.

Truth-Seeking at a Distance

2014 ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Reconciliation Process

The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (LTRC) was established by the Liberian government in 2005 to “promote national peace, security, unity, and reconciliation.” The LTRC thought it essential to allow Liberians who had fled the conflict to participate in the truth and reconciliation process. As a result, it partnered with a US-based non-governmental organization, The Advocates for Human Rights, to conduct the Diaspora Project. This chapter provides an overview of the Diaspora Project, which enabled Liberians on three continents to give statements to the LTRC. Given the wide dispersion of the Liberian diaspora, the author of this chapter demonstrates how information communication technologies were essential in the success of the Diaspora Project.

The United Nations and Human Rights

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Gudmundur Alfredsson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
International Human ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Rights Issues

International cooperation for the promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms is one of the very purposes of the United Nations, according to article 1 of the Organization's Charter. The mandate is clear. In order to live up to this purpose, much work has been undertaken by establishing international human rights standards and by encouraging and persuading states to comply with these same standards.This presentation, by way of an overview, briefly describes the international human rights instruments and the classification and contents of the standards contained therein. The methods employed by the United Nations and non-governmental organization (NGOs) for the realization of the standards are also outlined, including monitoring procedures, technical assistance and other activities concerned with the protection and promotion of human rights. Finally, the presentation identifies UN institutions where human rights issues and procedures are debated and decided upon.

scholarly journals The Right to A Clean Environment: Considering Green Logistics and Sustainable Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3254
Author(s):  
Dalia Perkumienė ◽  
Rasa Pranskūnienė ◽  
Milita Vienažindienė ◽  
Jurgita Grigienė
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Green Logistics ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Complex Solutions ◽  
The Right

The globalization process has yielded various undesirable consequences for the environment and society, including increased environmental pollution, climate change and the exhaustion and destruction of resources. The influence of these processes makes it difficult to guarantee citizens’ rights to a clean environment, and the implementation of this right requires complex solutions. The aim of this integrative review article is to discuss the right to a clean environment, as it relates to green logistics and sustainable tourism, by analyzing various scientific and legal sources. Rethinking the possible solutions of green logistics for sustainable tourism, such as tourism mobilities, bicycle tourism, the co-creation of smart velomobility, walkability, and others, can help us also rethink how to balance, respect, protect, and enforce human rights in the present-day context of climate change challenges. The integrative review analysis shows the importance of seeking a balance between the context (the right to a clean environment), the challenge (climate change), and the solutions (green logistics solutions for sustainable tourism).

scholarly journals A Review on SEELIFE NGO Website

2020 ◽  
pp. 639-641
Author(s):  
Archit Jain ◽  
Sahil Kathoke ◽  
Yash Khobragade ◽  
V. V. Deshpande
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Social Advocacy ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Developing Society ◽  
Broad Scale ◽  
Do So

Many Non-government organizations are working in the country. A non-governmental organization is an organization with no self-profit, group based on the citizen that functions independently of government. NGO activities include, but are not limited to, environmental, social, advocacy, and human rights work. They can work to promote social or political change on a broad scale or very locally. NGOs play a critical part in developing society, improving communities, and promoting citizen participation. This WEB application connects people to various NGOs based on their needs. The application connects people directly to the relevant NGO. The information about various NGOs is given based on their field of operation. If an individual requires the services of or wants to volunteer can directly communicate with NGOs. NGOs can communicate at various levels through this application. If a person or a group wants to be a volunteer in any such NGO, it can do so by registering through this app. And if a person has a query so they can communicate with the help of a chatbot.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Corporate Accountability in International Law: Models for a Business and Human Rights Treaty

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Bernaz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Future Business

Abstract This article conceptualizes corporate accountability under international law and introduces an analytical framework translating corporate accountability into seven core elements. Using this analytical framework, it then systematically assesses four models that could be used in a future business and human rights (BHR) treaty: the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights model, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights model, the progressive model, and the transformative model. It aims to contribute to the BHR treaty negotiation process by clarifying different options and possible trade-offs between them, while taking into account political realities. Ultimately, the article argues in favour of the BHR treaty embracing a progressive model of corporate accountability, which combines ambitious development of international law with realistic prospects of state support.

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