MMSD Human Rights Critque on Mining Practices
Right to Water Factsheet #1: Global Statistics
CESR Op Ed: Stifled in the Loya Jirga, by Omar Zakhilwal (The Washington Post)
Kabul, Afghanistan - I am a member of the loya jirga'ssilent majority -- or rather, silenced majority -- who came here toAfghanistan's capital expecting to shape our nation's future butinstead find ourselves being dragged back into the past.
Human Rights Assessment Mission to Afghanistan
Human Rights Conditions
Over twenty years of successive armed conflicts and massive humanrights violations have killed at least 1.5 million Afghans and rendered6 million homeless. Even prior to 11 September and 7 October, theAfghan population suffered severe destitution and hardship: a ruinedinfrastructure, abysmal socio-economic indicators, the world???s largestpopulation of refugees and internally displaced persons, the world???shighest concentration of land mines, three years of worsening drought,a repressive government and international isolation marked by economicsanctions.
CESR Demands the United States Turn Rhetoric into Reality and Protect the Right to Water
New York??? In honor of Earth Day, the Center for Economic and Social Rights(CESR), an international human right organization, is calling forincreased US role, domestically and internationally, in protecting theright to water. Water is the most basic and essential substance forhuman existence. The human right to water is guaranteed throughnumerous international conventions and treaties. CESR believesthat Earth Day provides an ideal opportunity to address how thislife-sustaining and limited resource may be better protected.
Ecuador Case Study
prepared for Swedish NGO Fund
by Chris Jochnick, Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales (CDES)
December, 1999
Rights Violations in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment
TheStockholm Declaration, adopted 16 June 1972, is the first document ininternational environmental law to explicitly recognize the right to a healthy environment.