The Extraterritorial Application of the Human Right to Water in Africa

Cambridge University Press, 2014

Posted: 3 Oct 2016

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Takele Soboka Bulto

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University) - Graduate School of Business and Law; Addis Ababa University - School of Law

Date Written: January 15, 2014

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Water rights, sanitation, drinking water, socio-economic rights, Africa charter, law of international watercourses, extraterritoriality, remedies

Suggested Citation

Bulto, Takele Soboka, The Extraterritorial Application of the Human Right to Water in Africa (January 15, 2014). Cambridge University Press, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2843450

Takele Soboka Bulto (Contact Author)

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University) - Graduate School of Business and Law ( email )

Melbourne
Australia

Addis Ababa University - School of Law ( email )

Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

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