The Extraterritorial Application of the Human Right to Water in Africa

Argues that international human rights and water laws provide legal bases for the right to water and its extraterritorial application.

Takele Soboka Bulto (Author)

9781107031081, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 December 2013

326 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.61 kg

International human rights law has only recently concerned itself with water. Instead, international water law has regulated the use of shared rivers, and only states qua states could claim rights and bear duties towards each other. International human rights law has focused on its principal mission of taming the powers of a state acting territorially. Takele Soboka Bulto challenges the established analytic boundaries of international water law and international human rights law. By demonstrating the potential complementarity between the two legal regimes and the ensuing utility of regime coordination for the establishment of the human right to water and its extraterritorial application, he also shows that human rights law and the international law of watercourses can apply in tandem with the purpose of protecting non-national non-residents in Africa and beyond.

1. Introduction
2. The human right to water at the global level
3. The human right to water in the African human rights system
4. The human right to water and states' domestic obligations
5. The human right to water and states' extraterritorial obligations
6. Extraterritoriality of the human right to water in international water law
7. The human right to water and extraterritorial remedies
8: Conclusion.

Subject Areas: International human rights law [LBBR], International environmental law [LBBP], Law [L]