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Human right to water and sanitation and its relation to environmental protection in Latin America

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2020): Anuario Derechos Humanos
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.53131

Abstract

This work reviews the recognition of the human right to water and sanitation in the Latin American region, considering the international and local regulations. For this purpose, first the article analyses the development of the contents that have been enshrined in the universal human rights system, which have made possible to conceive the human right to water and sanitation as an autonomous right, highlighting the importance of environmental protection. Secondly, the article reviews the process of recognition of this right in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, focusing its attention in the evolution of the Court’s criteria when it considers in its decisions the human right to water and sanitation as an autonomous right. Finally, the paper reviews the consecrate of the right to water in local constitutions, to argue about the ways in which these contents have been settled in the internal law constitutional rights.

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Human right to water and sanitation, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, health environmental, water, constitutional law, new Latin American constitutionalism

Author Biography

Antonio Pulgar Martínez, Universidad de Chile

Antonio Pulgar Martínez es abogado de la Universidad de Chile. Asistente de investigación del Centro de Derecho Ambiental de la misma casa de estudios. Coeditor de la Revista de Derecho Ambiental de la misma casa de estudio.

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Pulgar Martínez, A. (2020). Human right to water and sanitation and its relation to environmental protection in Latin America. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, 16(1), 99–118. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.53131
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