Anmerkungen:
In: 40 Vermont Law Review 445 (2016)
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2016 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This Article is based on a presentation to the Vermont Law Review Symposium, "Habitat for Human Rights: Environmental Degradation and Human Rights." It begins by highlighting three general scenarios where environmental and human rights laws intersect, and then examines the experience of Indigenous Huaorani (also spelled "Waorani" and "Waodani") in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador with environmental and human rights law and litigation. It includes a discussion of oil extraction operations by Texaco (now part of Chevron) in Ecuador, and the ongoing litigation that has come to be known as "the Chevron Ecuador litigation." It also includes a discussion of Ome Yasuni, an alliance of affected grassroots Huaorani communities who have organized themselves to defend their habitat as human rights in the area now known as Yasuni National Park and Biosphere Reserve