Investment Protection and the Global Commons: The Human Right to Water and Concurrent Responsibilities in International Law
Article from: TDM 4 (2022), in Latin America
Abstract
The human right to water is established not only by Resolution 64/292 of the UN General Assembly sanctioned in 2010, but also by other norms of positive international law and by customary law. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has also considered that compliance with the human right to water is essential for the fulfilment of other human rights guaranteed in international treaties. However, international law has not developed homogeneously, but has done so in a fragmented way and at multiple speeds. We can see an example in how investors' ...