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Labour Mobility Options as Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Changes?
Full text linkThe international community has devoted a substantial effort to understanding the concrete impact of environmental degradation (defined as slow-onset environmental degradation, such as rising sea levels, increased salinization, desertification, and soil or coastal erosion) on human mobility and to fostering research to identify migration, in particular labour mobility, as a positive adaptation strategy
Protection of Victims of Disasters: The “Vertical” Dimension of the Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters
No full textYearbook of International Disaster Law
No full textThe Yearbook of International Disaster Law aims to represent a hub for critical debate in this emerging area of research and policy and to foster the interest of academics, practitioners, stakeholders and policy-makers on legal and institutional issues relevant to all forms of natural, technological and human-made hazards. This Yearbook primarily addresses the international law dimension of relevant topics, alongside important regional and national dimensions relevant for further development of legal and policy initiatives.Volume One features a thematic section on the Draft Articles of the ILC on the “Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters” as well as a general selection of articles, and an international and regional review of International Disaster Law in Practice, plus book reviews and bibliography.The Yearbook is also available online. To learn more about the online version, please click here
Yearbook of International Disaster Law
No full textThe Yearbook of International Disaster Law aims to represent a hub for critical debate in this emerging area of research and policy and to foster the interest of academics, practitioners, stakeholders and policy-makers on legal and institutional issues relevant to all forms of natural, technological and human-made hazards. This Yearbook primarily addresses the international law dimension of relevant topics, alongside important regional and national dimensions relevant for further development of legal and policy initiatives.Volume Four features a thematic section on the "Regionalization and Localisation on International Disaster Law" as well as a general selection of articles, and an international and regional review of International Disaster Law in Practice, plus book reviews and bibliography.The Yearbook is also available online. To learn more about the online version, please click here
Promoting Dignity for All: Human Rights Approaches in the Post-2015 Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development Frameworks
No full textThis article takes as its starting point the potentially negative human rights implications that the effects of climate change, disasters and development practices can have on individuals and communities. It argues that key international instruments, including the post-2015 successors to the Kyoto Protocol, Hyogo Framework for Action on disaster risk reduction and the Millennium Development Goals, appear to be moving towards an express acknowledgment of the relevance of international human rights law as an important mechanism to minimise potential harms that may arise. This raises the question as to the appropriate role of the UN human rights monitoring and accountability mechanisms in identifying the relevant rights-holders and duty-bearers. The article therefore provides an examination of the linkages between climate change and international human rights law, as well as discussion of the human rights considerations and accountability mechanisms for disasters and sustainable development. The article concludes by arguing that despite differential understandings between disciplines as to the meaning of key terms such as ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’, international human rights law provides a comprehensive basis for promoting international and national accountability. It follows that a greater level of coordination and coherence between the human rights approaches of the various post-2015 legal and policy frameworks is warranted as a means of promoting the dignity of those most affected by climate change, disasters and developmental activities
Yearbook of International Disaster Law
No full textThe Yearbook of International Disaster Law aims to represent a hub for critical debate in this emerging area of research and policy and to foster the interest of academics, practitioners, stakeholders and policy-makers on legal and institutional issues relevant to all forms of natural, technological and human-made hazards. This Yearbook primarily addresses the international law dimension of relevant topics, alongside important regional and national dimensions relevant for further development of legal and policy initiatives.Volume Four features a thematic section on the "Regionalization and Localisation on International Disaster Law" as well as a general selection of articles, and an international and regional review of International Disaster Law in Practice, plus book reviews and bibliography.The Yearbook is also available online. To learn more about the online version, please click here
Yearbook of International Disaster Law
No full textThe Yearbook of International Disaster Law aims to represent a hub for critical debate in this emerging area of research and policy and to foster the interest of academics, practitioners, stakeholders and policy-makers on legal and institutional issues relevant to all forms of natural, technological and human-made hazards. This Yearbook primarily addresses the international law dimension of relevant topics, alongside important regional and national dimensions relevant for further development of legal and policy initiatives.Volume Four features a thematic section on the "Regionalization and Localisation on International Disaster Law" as well as a general selection of articles, and an international and regional review of International Disaster Law in Practice, plus book reviews and bibliography.The Yearbook is also available online. To learn more about the online version, please click here
An Analysis of Soft Law Applicable to Humanitarian Assistance: Relative Normativity in Action?
No full textThere is limited binding international law specifically covering the provision of humanitarian assistance in response to natural and human-made disasters. Yet a variety of authoritative soft law texts have been developed in the past 20 years, including the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the Red Cross Red Crescent Code of Conduct and the Sphere Project’s Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response. While such ‘non-binding normative standards’ do not carry the weight of international law, they play an essential role in the provision of humanitarian assistance albeit subject to their limited enforceability vis-à-vis intended beneficiaries and to their voluntary application by humanitarian actors. Notwithstanding a lack of legal compulsion, certain non-binding normative standards may directly influence the actions of States and non-State actors, and so obtain a strongly persuasive character. Analysis of texts that influence the practice of humanitarian assistance advances our understanding of humanitarian principles and performance standards for disaster response. As the International Law Commission debates draft articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, such non-binding normative standards are crucial to the development of an internationally accepted legal framework to protect victims of disasters
An enchanted tool? Humanitarian assistance and the ILC Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters
No full textSpeed of response is essential to protect lives and prevent unnecessary suffering following a natural or human-made disaster, and even developed countries may need the support of the international community to effectively respond to large-scale disasters. Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, Japan ultimately requested international assistance following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami which not only destroyed towns and villages but also set off a chain reaction in the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Offers of assistance came from over 100 countries, including a donation of US50,000 from the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan. Considerable effort has been made over the past 50 years in developing and refining international mechanisms for disaster prevention and response. Within the UN system, the first of many General Assembly Resolutions relating to universal responses to natural disasters was passed in 1965 and highlighted the need for greater international coordination of disaster relief.<br/
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