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Natural law and the rights of nature – in search of more effective environmental protection
Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2023 The paper discusses innovative legal regulations that may contribute to increasing standards ofenvironmental protection. In the face of increasing nature degradation and climate change, current protection measures are insufficient.
Samanta Kowalska
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE IDEA OF NATURAL RIGHTS
Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly, 2023 Based on the findings of other publications, this paper attempts to assess whether the ideas of natural rights and human rights can be understood as identical. The first part of the paper outlines, from a historical perspective, the idea of natural rights; the second part presents elements of the conception of human rights.
Marcin MERKWA, Milan SUDZINA
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Fundamental Challenges for Rights of Nature
, 2021 In recent years many actors have investigated the possibilities of strengthening legal environmental protection by making appeals to the rights of nature. Such rights have also been legally encoded in some countries.
Baard, Patrik,, Patrik Baard
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Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo, 2023 In these times when we experience, first-hand, the limits of our existence, COVID-19 has proved to be another of the multiple consequences of the human footprint on the Earth ecosystem.
Susana Borràs-Pentinat
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The nature of human rights [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2016 In the first part of the paper, the author points out that, unlike in the past, in our time human rights developed into a fair legal institution, and even a special system. They are formulated and protected both internally and internationally. The second
Krivokapić Boris
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Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2005 The twentieth century saw a vigorous debate over the nature of rights.\ud Will theorists argued that the function of rights is to allocate domains of\ud freedom. Interest theorists portrayed rights as defenders of well-being.\ud Each side declared its conceptual analysis to be closer to an ordinary\ud understanding of what rights there are, and to an ...
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For the Rights of Nature [PDF]
Mouvements, 2012 La revendication de « droits de la Nature » émerge dans l’espace international, dans le contexte de Rio+ 20. Fin 2011 la Bolivie a fait une proposition portant explicitement ce titre, et situant sa contribution dans la droite ligne de textes passés : la Charte mondiale pour la nature (1982), la Déclaration de Rio (1992), la Charte de la Terre (2000) et
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A positivist approach to rights of nature in the European Union
, 2021 A growing number of jurisdictions throughout the world have recognized some type of legal rights of nature. This jurisprudential trend has thus far made few inroads in Europe. However, its apparent absence is misleading.
Epstein, Yaffa +3 more
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Revista Colombiana de Bioética, 2018 This paper is a review of international and national case law aimed at presenting and evaluating the considerations within Colombian rulings that have opened a path toward the recognition of new subjects of rights, and of foreign rulings used as ...
Alejandra Molano Bustacara +1 more
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Recognizing the rights of nature in Colombia : the Atrato river case.
Jurídicas, 2020 This article studies the recognition of Río Atrato as a subject of rights through Judgment T-622-16 of the Constitutional Court, in a case without precedent in Colombian Law.
Iván Vargas Chaves +3 more
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