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17 Jul 2013

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European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation

Training Seminar: Human Rights and the Environment [Venice, 21-23 Nov]

The proposed training course aims at integrating environmental issues and their legal tools with a human rights framework, by involving Conservation Ecology experts side by side with internationally recognised academics and practitioners in the field of Human Rights, International Law and Environmental Law...Environmental law and human rights are increasingly intertwined offering the prospect of ever-greater synergies. The human right to food, for instance, is directly linked to environmental provisions relating to fisheries, soil quality (non-desertification), and to clean water. International human rights courts have become venues for raising pollution claims and complaints from indigenous people concerning threats to their environment...