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The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) was founded in 1979 as the direct continuation of the I and II Russell Tribunal and on initiative of the Basso Foundation - International section whereof it is ...
Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua, (Judgment on Merits, Reparations and Costs), Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), Series C No. 29 (31 August 2001) Case of ...
Water is the essential resource for life and every human being has the right to access to water necessary for his/her basic needs. Nevertheless, the international human rights law, surprisingly, is ...
The term food sovereignty was coined by the International Peasants Movement - Via Campesina, in 1996 to advocate a policy framework claiming the right of peoples to define their own food, ...
The right to food is defined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as: "the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, ...
To the term agrofuels corresponds the more usual biofuels. However, given the effects that they have on life, according to many experts, the prefix 'bio', which suggests an environment-friendly ...
'Marginal', 'idle', 'under-exploited' lands are not clearly defined and vary from country to country. There are no fixed criteria to define them, for this reason the experts affirm that, in ...
Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2011 Periodical of the Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples of the University of Padua Director Antonio Papisca Reseach and ...
The entire production cycle of agrofuels, from sowing to processing, requires a great amount of water: both for irrigation of crops and the phases of processing raw materials to obtain oil or gas. ...
Jacopo Tognon, Antonella Stelitano (2011)
The Conference The Difference in the daily choice. Human rights and fair trade: the case of Palestine has the goal of analysing the relation linking fair trade with human rights in the Palestinian ...
The Renewable Energy Directive, adopted in 2009 by the EU, establishes sustainability standards for agrofuels both produced within the EU and imported from third countries. In order to fulfil the ...
Since the beginning of the process, many issues emerged from the impact assessment as interrelated elements to the agrofuels production: they focused on GHG emissions, biodiversity, environment, ...
Since 2001, the EU has started to take a serious interest in agrofuels and, in the last ten years, it has become one of the major world actors which have significantly contributed to the development ...
Observing the entire cycle of the agricultural process needed to the agrofuels production some issues raised in relation to the environmental protection. The following are the main concerns emerged ...