The UN recognition of a human right to water for drinking, personal and other domestic uses and sanitation in 2010 was a political breakthrough in states’ commitments to adopt a human rights framework in carrying out part of their mandate. This chapter explores other domains of freshwater governa...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Hellum, A.
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Mehta, L.
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Derman, B.
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Schreiner, B.
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[Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses]
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Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses
This article discusses ways in which the South African Government and grassroots organizations envisage and implement democracy achieved since 1994 in the eld of water resources management. The focus is on the democratic, political and economic freedom and equality in resource rights for poor bl...
Schreiner, B.
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Mohapi, N.
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa]
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Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Derman, B.
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Schreiner, B.
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Durojaye, E.
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Mweso, N.
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[Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water: lessons from South Africa]
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Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water: lessons from South Africa
This article discusses ways in which the South African Government and grassroots organizations envisage and implement democracy achieved since 1994 in the eld of water resources management. The focus is on the democratic, political and economic freedom and equality in resource rights for poor bl...
Schreiner, B.
,
Mohapi, N.
,
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
,
[Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa]
,
Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa