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Conference Paper / Presentation | 2016

Litigating Water as a Human Right: An Effective Strategy in Latin America?

Bruce M. Wilson,Camila Gianella,Lara Côrtes (2016)
Presented at: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Session IRC Transnational Natural Resource Governance, Sovereignty and Human Rights.
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Lara Côrtes

Coordinator, Center on Law and Social Transformation
  • lara.cortes@cmi.no
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Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples´ claim for water?

Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
  • Climate and Natural Resources
  • Rights and Legal Institutions
  • Brazil
  • Costa Rica
  • Peru.

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Water rights struggles in Johannesburg and Detroit revisited - Looking beyond courts at the politics and power of rights-based legal mobilisation in a neoliberal global order: A 'powerpack' analysis'

Jackie Dugard

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