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SECTION 4 THE ENFORCEABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS

A Nascent Agenda for the Americas 04/27/04
As Taillant writes, recently in Latin America the enforcement of human rights and environmental legislation has been making headway.
Author(s): Jorge Daniel Taillant

Environmental Rights Enforcement in U.S. Courts 04/27/04
Osofsky notes that, unless advocates can convince courts to accept a characterization of these problems as violations of international law, victims of severe environmental harm will be limited to domestic law and non-legal strategies for obtaining redress.
Author(s): Hari M. Osofsky

Defending Environmental Defenders 04/27/04
Folabi K. Olagbaju and Stephen Mills detail how two leading American grassroots organizations -- Amnesty International USA and Sierra Club -- joined hands to protect those who advocate for the environment.
Author(s): Folabi K. Olagbaju, Stephen Mills

Commentary on "The enforceability of environmental rights" 04/28/04
It is up to the NGO community to identify common concerns around human rights and the environment, and to posit a definition of environmental rights that is both broad enough to account for varying cultural contexts and specific enough to be comprehensible.
Author(s): Betsy Apple

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Human Rights Dialogue promotes a global discussion of human rights ideas and practices by presenting firsthand accounts of human rights issues as they arise within specific real-life contexts. In so doing, it helps to clarify the significant and ongoing evolution that is taking place within the human rights movement to make the human rights framework more relevant and effective in addressing the social, economic, and political challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Series One (1993–1998)examines all sides of the Asian values debate—the argument that Asian cultural values imply different human rights standards and priorities from those in the West.

Series Two(2000–2005)addresses the problem of the “human rights box”—the constraints that have enabled the human rights framework to gain currency among elites while limiting its advance among the most vulnerable. Specifically, the essays aim to locate the barriers to greater public legitimacy of human rights and to demonstrate how those barriers can be overcome.