The Human Right to Water: Market Allocations and Subsistence in a World of Scarcity
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v12i1.181Keywords:
Undergraduate research, Education abroad, Undergraduate research abroad, Water scrarcityAbstract
This article presents an undergraduate student research project on water scarcity and basic rights to water by concentrating on multinational corporate ownership of water resources and the WTO´s trade-related role in water availability in Geneva, Switzerland.
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“Crazed by Thirst: Canadians are in Lather Over Water Exports,” The Economist, September 15, 2001.
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available at: www.unhchr.ch.
Declaration on the Right to Development: UN Resolution 41/128.
Derber, Charles. People Before Profit. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
Estache, Antonio & Gomez-Lobo, Andres & Leipziger, Danny. “Utilities Privatization and the Poor: Lessons and Evidence from Latin America,” World Development, 2001, Vol. 29, No. 7, 1179–1198.
Fact sheet, “Human Rights in Development,” 1996–2002, OHCHR; available at: http://193.194.138.190/development/right.html.
Finley, Bruce. “Dying for Clean Water,” The Denver Post, November 23. 2003.
GATT Articles; available at: www.wto.org.
General Comment No. 15. “Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” 29th session. 22 November, 2002.
Gleick, Peter H. “The Human Right to Water,” Water Policy, Issue 1, 1998, 487–503.
Gould, Ellen. “Water in the Current Round of WTO Negotiations on Services.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: volume 4, number 1, January 2003.
Grusky, Sara. “Privatization Tidal Wave – IMF/World Bank Water Policies and the Price Paid by the Poor,” Multinational Monitor, September 2001, Vol. 22 No. 9.
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Geneva: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1998.
Komarow, Steve. “Marsh Arabs Long for Return of Wetlands,” USA Today, November 26, 2003.
Lairson, Thomas D. & Skidmore, David. International Political Economy — The Struggle for Power and Wealth. California: Wadsworth/Thomson, 2003.
“Low Water,” Financial Times, August 14, 2001.
“Main Instruments Relevant to the Human Right to Water,” World Water Day 2001; available at: www.worldwaterday.org/2001/thematic/hrannex.html.
Martin, Diarmuid. Comprehensive Development Strategies and the Right to Development,
in The Right to Development. Geneva: Franciscans International, 2003.
NAFTA treaty. Available at www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/home/index_e.aspx.
Peet, John. “Priceless,” Survey, The Economist, July 17, 2003.
Postel, Sandra. Last Oasis. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Postel, Sandra. Pillar of Sand. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.
Press release, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 29th session, 22 November, 2002; available at: www.unhchr.ch.
Robinson, William I. Promoting Polyarchy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Rothfeder, Jeffrey. Every Drop for Sale. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books, 1999.
Sengupta, Arjun. “Fifth Report of the Independent Expert on the Right to Development.” U.N. doc. E/CN.4/2002/WG.18/6.
Shue, Henry. Basic Rights – Subsistence, Affluence, and US Foreign Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Shiva, Vandana. Water Wars. Cambridge: South End Press, 2002.
“There’s Plenty up North,” The Economist, January 21, 1999.
United Nations Development Program. “Human Development Report,” Human Rights and Human Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; available at: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, “World Conference on Human Rights,” June 14–25, 1993.
“Water, Health and Human Rights,” Overview of Thematic Articles, World
Water Day 2001; available at: www.worldwaterday.org.
“Water in China: In Deep,” The Economist, August 18, 2001.
Woicke, Peter. “The Water Crisis is Taking a Toll Worse Than Any War,” International Herald Tribune, March 18, 2003.
World Bank. “World Development Report,” Attacking Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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2005-11-15
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McAdam, K. (2005). The Human Right to Water: Market Allocations and Subsistence in a World of Scarcity. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 12(1), 59–85. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v12i1.181
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