scholarly journals The Human Right to Access Clean Energy

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Tully
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Human Rights Norms

This paper proposes the existence of a human right to access clean energy in view of trends favoring greater resort to renewable energy sources within several parallel policy contexts. The existing international framework for the protection and promotion of human rights may be applied to support an entitlement to access energy for individual benefit. However, the application of human rights norms to an appropriate energy source must also be compatible with the contemporary sustainable development agenda. This includes balancing economic development, sustainably using natural resources, environmental protection and poverty alleviation. A human rights approach must also be sufficiently receptive to similarities and differences in the energy strategies of developed and developing States. It is argued that a human right to access clean energy more accurately reflects intergovernmental concerns for both human development and environmental sustainability. While such a right can be employed to satisfy basic human needs, enhance living standards, maintain good human health and alleviate poverty, it can also contribute to the efficient use of existing natural resources, the prevention of climate change and environmental protection.

Housing as a Basic Human Right: A Reflection on South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mziwandile Sobantu ◽  
Nqobile Zulu ◽  
Ntandoyenkosi Maphosa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This paper reflects on human rights in the post-apartheid South Africa housing context from a social development lens. The Constitution guarantees access to adequate housing as a basic human right, a prerequisite for the optimum development of individuals, families and communities. Without the other related socio-economic rights, the provision of access to housing is limited in its service delivery. We argue that housing rights are inseparable from the broader human rights discourse and social development endeavours underway in the country. While government has made much progress through the Reconstruction and Development Programme, the reality of informal settlements and backyard shacks continues to undermine the human rights prospects of the urban poor. Forced evictions undermine some poor citizens’ human rights leading courts to play an active role in enforcing housing and human rights through establishing a jurisprudence that invariably advances a social development agenda. The authors argue that the post-1994 government needs to galvanise the citizenship of the urban poor through development-oriented housing delivery.

scholarly journals Green Management System

Media Wisata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Management System ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Green Management ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
To Come ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Management Functions

Green Management System (GMS) is an effort to protect the environment. With the depletion of natural resources, the protection of the environment is not only limited to a small part of its corporate social responsibility, but it must be a model in business organizations. Model GMS-oriented environment, will systematically affect the company in reducing waste, reducing the use of natural resources, reduce pollution and continuously monitoring the purpose of creating business results that were positive for all stakeholders. Modern business travel will continue to come under pressure from the environment and the realization of the company's sustainability strategy, the managers began to review the possibility of implementation of GMS in the management system of the organization; directs the management of the organization, developing technologies to reduce adverse environmental impact and develop the production of green (green production) more rational and cost-effective. Development and implementation of green policies in environmental management become an important part of the transformation of business management functions in optimizing the use of GMS to improve corporate performance and benefits for environmental sustainability. Direct implications for the development and implementation of environmental protection in the modern business organization in accordance with modern green standards and the principles of environmental sustainability and a company associated with the creation of the organization, program and structure, education and training of human resources will enable the transfer and dissemination of knowledge for environmental protection

scholarly journals Expanding the Impact of the Psychology of Working: Engaging Psychology in the Struggle for Decent Work and Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Blustein ◽  
Maureen E. Kenny ◽  
Annamaria Di Fabio ◽  
Jean Guichard
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychology Of Working ◽  
The Impact

Building on new developments in the psychology of working framework (PWF) and psychology of working theory (PWT), this article proposes a rationale and research agenda for applied psychologists and career development professionals to contribute to the many challenges related to human rights and decent work. Recent and ongoing changes in the world are contributing to a significant loss of decent work, including a rise of unemployment, underemployment, and precarious work across the globe. By failing to satisfy human needs for economic survival, social connection, and self-determination, the loss of decent work undermines individual and societal well-being, particularly for marginalized groups and those without highly marketable skills. Informed by innovations in the PWF/PWT, we offer exemplary research agendas that focus on examining the psychological meaning and impact of economic and social protections, balancing caregiving work and market work, making work more just, and enhancing individual capacities for coping and adapting to changes in the world of work. These examples are intended to stimulate new ideas and initiatives for psychological research that will inform and enhance efforts pertaining to work as a human right.

Of Old Men, Country Clubs, and Atrocities: The Visualities and Externalities of Detaining Elderly Human Rights Violators in Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Caroline Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Negative Externality ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Penal Reform ◽  
Country Club ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Old Men ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article explores a pair of powerful but competing symbols in the Chilean human transitional justice process: ‘pobres viejitos’ (poor little old men) and country club prisons. The symbol of the ‘pobres viejitos’ is used very effectively by conservative elements of Chilean society to argue the futility or even inhumanity of punishing perpetrators of human right violations so long after the commission of their crimes. In turn, to victims and more liberal segments of society, the country club or ‘five star’ prison for human rights violators stands as a symbol of impunity and the failure of the Chilean state to do justice for the crimes of the dictatorship. This article examines the power of these symbols in undermining support for transitional justice efforts, as well as the externalities of the debate. The fate of the ‘pobres viejitos’ and whether to release the from even their relatively comfortable places of confinement has bled into debates on penal reform for other elderly prisoners. This mostly negative externality suggests the need for international and regional courts (or countries not in the throes of transitional justice processes, particularly delayed ones) to lead the way on the articulation of human rights norms related to the trial and punishment of elderly prisoners.

Part VII Inter-linkages with Other Regimes, Ch.45 Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knox John H
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Environmental Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Norms

This chapter examines the relationship between human rights and the environment, which has developed through the adoption and interpretation of many different national constitutions and laws, human rights treaties, and multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). The development of what might be called ‘environmental human rights law’ has occurred in three main channels. First, efforts to achieve recognition of a human right to a healthy environment, while ineffective at the UN, have achieved widespread success at the national and regional levels. Second, some multilateral environmental instruments have incorporated human rights norms, especially rights of access to information, public participation, and remedy. Third, human rights tribunals and other monitoring bodies have ‘greened’ human rights law by applying a wide range of human rights to environmental harm. The chapter explains each of these paths of development before sketching potential lines of further development through recognition of the rights of nature and of future generations.

A Genuine Islamic Conceptualization of Religious Freedom

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhood Badri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Human Rights Norms

Abstract Departing from a critical norm research perspective, the paper first sketches the need to unveil the Eurocentric and secular bias of International Relations (IR) as a discipline in general and its constructivist norm research program in particular. With regard to human rights norms, and religious freedom in particular, the dominant liberal-secular international human rights law understanding of religious freedom marginalizes religious, and especially, Islamic grounds and understandings of this truly global norm. Indeed, it demonstrates both, the dominant ideational perspective of religious freedom as a Western human right grounded by Western-canonical thinkers, and the limits of accommodating religion and religious voices in IR. In contrast, and against the background of a post-secular IR, the paper seeks to unveil alternative and marginalized bodies of Islamic knowledge for the sake of a more comprehensive picture to be painted by IR. By reconstructing reformist Islamic thought and Islamic ideational perspectives and conceptualizations of religious freedom, the paper seeks to let these voices speak for themselves as truly genuine Islamic contributions to IR. The overall aim is threefold: to theoretically connect critical norm research and post-secular approaches with reformist Islamic thought by conceptualizing ijtihad as religious norm contestation; to unveil the double marginalized character of critical Muslim voices in IR; and finally to paint a broader and more comprehensive picture of Islam and IR by revealing an alternative Islamic genealogy of universal religious freedom.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS THE BASIS OF UKRAINE'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Svitlana Chernik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
National Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Definition Of

It is established that sustainable development is the basis of Ukraine's environmental policy, which contributes to the balanced use of natural resources, environmental protection and human needs. The definition of the concept of "sustainable development", the main principles of the concept of sustainable development, the elements of the concept of sustainable development are studied. The definition of sustainable development as the interaction of man and nature on the basis of balance and interdependence, provides for rational and efficient consumption of natural resources, minimization of negative impacts on them in the process of meeting the needs of the individual. It is determined that global environmental issues require joint efforts and the implementation of appropriate policies at the state level. It is proved that the environmental policy of Ukraine is based on the principles of sustainable development and regulatory documents approved at the international, regional and national levels. The focus is on regulations governing the implementation of the main provisions of the concept of sustainable development. Important for humanity is the document approved in 2015 at the UN Summit, "Transforming our world: the agenda for sustainable development until 2030", which approved 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other hand, confirmed Ukraine's intentions to further cooperate at the regional level in the field of environmental protection. It has been established that Ukraine is building its policy in view of the relevant commitments. At the national level, the concept of sustainable development is enshrined in the legislation of Ukraine, which lays the foundations of environmental policy and sets indicators for assessing the implementation of state environmental policy in the future.

scholarly journals Artikel PPKN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
cevi aprilia prasetyawati
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
Basic Human Needs

Health is a state of complete physical,mental and social wellbeing that enables everyoneto people live socially productive lives. Health is one of the basic human needs,therefore health is a right for every citizen protected by law.The purpose of this writing is to inform the public recarding human rights in health.Result of in this discussion there are human right in health and the responsibility of the state towards human rights.

The Future of Human Rights in WHO

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Bustreo ◽  
Veronica Magar ◽  
Rajat Khosla ◽  
Marcus Stahlhofer ◽  
Rebekah Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how the Sustainable Development Agenda—with its focus on equity, gender equality, and human rights—has provided an unprecedented opportunity to advance human rights within the World Health Organization (WHO). It looks at how human rights are increasingly permeating the Organization’s work, both implicitly and explicitly, and how this paves the way for a bolder vision for human rights in health. Through this examination, the authors lay out a strategy for three necessary shifts that would set WHO on an unprecedented path toward greater rights-based health governance: the adoption of a Resolution by WHO’s governing body on health, both as a human right and as a means to achieve human rights (“to health and through health”); greater collaboration between WHO and the UN human rights system to promote rights-based approaches to health; and building evidence of the impact of such approaches on health.

Switching to Clean Energy: A Milestone for Energy Security and Economic Advantage for Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Chet Narayan Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Alternative Energy Sources ◽  
Development Agenda

With the world-wide wave of economic development and improved traditional living standard of people, consumption of fuel has also increased significantly. Exponential growth in use of fossil fuel and its impacts compelled to search for alternative energy sources. Green energy is that source of energy that is naturally restocked. Nepal is rich enough country for renewable energy sources even though, could not accelerate growth and development agenda.  Appropriate policy and planning of green energy would help to give a big push to break development hazards and would contribute for economic freedom and energy security.  This paper attempts to scrutinize and understand the green energy utilization, proper management and exploring the capacity of the Nepalese economy.

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