Author(s) S. James Anaya and Claudio Grossman Keywords indigenous communities, Nicaragua, Mayagna, sumo, environmental protection, equality, land rights, America, human rights systems, Awas Tingni, international law, logging, preservation of culture, natural resources, developing nations, displacement, sustainable development Abstract The people of Awas Tingni did not set about to forge an international legal precedent with implications […]
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Author Jennifer A. Amiott Keywords indigenous communities, Nicaragua, Mayagna, sumo, environmental protection, equality, land rights, America, human rights systems, Awas Tingni, international law, logging, preservation of culture, natural resources, developing nations, displacement, sustainable development Abstract Through history, indigenous peoples have been assaulted physically and suffered discrimination; they have seen their cultures undermined, their lands stolen, […]
Author(s) Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain Keywords Carbon dioxide; China; India; developing countries; greenhouse gases (GHGs); climate change; human rights; ‘luxury emissions’; ‘subsistence emissions’; ‘survival emissions’. Abstract The idea that developing countries like India and China must share the blame for heating up the earth and destablising its climate, as espoused in a recent study published […]