[ Vers une reconnaissance du droit à la terre par le droit international des droits de l’homme ]
Volume 15, Issue 4, May 2016, Pages 919–925
ABDELKRIM LHAFSSI1
1 Faculté des sciences juridiques économiques et sociales - Souissi, Université Mohamed V - Rabat, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Starting from the previous implemented processes to recognize the human right to water, and the observation that human rights are indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, we argue that it is time to establish a human right to land under international law. Indeed, two strong arguments constitute a convincing pillar: the first is the importance of land for the realization of a number of internationally recognized human rights, and the second is the alarming situation of serious violations of human rights resulting from the expansion, in the recent years, of international investment in farmlands. Such basis is supported by providing a number of widely accepted international instruments and both regionally and nationally advanced jurisprudence. However, efforts to interpret and apply international standards remain a permanent challenge, and their effectiveness has not been definitively established, given the fragmented nature of international human rights law.
Author Keywords: right to land, land rights, land grabbing, human rights international instruments, equality of treatment, indigenous people, agricultural communities, rural population.
Volume 15, Issue 4, May 2016, Pages 919–925
ABDELKRIM LHAFSSI1
1 Faculté des sciences juridiques économiques et sociales - Souissi, Université Mohamed V - Rabat, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Starting from the previous implemented processes to recognize the human right to water, and the observation that human rights are indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, we argue that it is time to establish a human right to land under international law. Indeed, two strong arguments constitute a convincing pillar: the first is the importance of land for the realization of a number of internationally recognized human rights, and the second is the alarming situation of serious violations of human rights resulting from the expansion, in the recent years, of international investment in farmlands. Such basis is supported by providing a number of widely accepted international instruments and both regionally and nationally advanced jurisprudence. However, efforts to interpret and apply international standards remain a permanent challenge, and their effectiveness has not been definitively established, given the fragmented nature of international human rights law.
Author Keywords: right to land, land rights, land grabbing, human rights international instruments, equality of treatment, indigenous people, agricultural communities, rural population.
Abstract: (french)
Partant de l’antécédente démarche suivie pour reconnaitre le droit de l’homme à l’eau, et du constat selon lequel les droits de l'homme sont indivisibles, interdépendants et intimement liés, nous faisons valoir que le temps est venu pour établir un droit de l'homme à la terre en vertu du droit international. En effet, deux arguments forts constituent un fondement convaincant. Le premier est l'importance de la terre pour la réalisation d'un certain nombre de droits humains internationalement reconnus. Le second est la situation alarmante des violations graves des droits de l'homme découlant de l’expansion, ces dernières années, des investissements internationaux dans les terres agricoles. Ce fondement se trouve soutenu par les dispositions d’un certain nombre d'instruments internationaux largement acceptés et une avancée jurisprudentielle à la fois régionale et nationale. Cependant, les efforts visant à interpréter et appliquer les normes internationales demeurent un défi permanent, et leur efficacité n'a pas été définitivement établie, étant donné la nature fragmentaire du droit international des droits humains.
Author Keywords: droits fonciers, accaparement de terres, instruments internationaux des droits de l’homme, populations autochtones, communautés agricoles, populations rurales.
How to Cite this Article
ABDELKRIM LHAFSSI, “Towards a land right recognition by International Human Rights Law,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 919–925, May 2016.
