Adopting a human rights-based approach to access to water in Nigeria : lessons from selected jurisdictions

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dc.contributor.advisor Kok, Anton en
dc.contributor.coadvisor Olowu, Dejo en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Niyi-Gafar, Oluwabunmi Lucy en
dc.date.accessioned 2017-09-29T07:14:06Z
dc.date.available 2017-09-29T07:14:06Z
dc.date.created 2017-09-06 en
dc.date.issued 2017 en
dc.description Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2017. en
dc.description.abstract Based on the assumption that water is a human right that the Nigerian government is obliged to fulfil, this thesis begins with a historical overview of the development of a human right to water. This description provides the background against which a human rights-based approach to water is conceptualised. I argue that the Nigerian government supports the human right to water on the international stage but has failed to maintain a legal and institutional framework that supports a human right to water domestically. A legal analysis of the current state of access to water in Nigeria shows that there are inadequate laws that contribute to the poor access to water in Nigeria. I, therefore, propose the recognition of the human right to water and the adoption of a human rights-based approach to water in Nigeria. I identify South Africa and Kenya as comparators having constitutionalised the human right to water in addition to having developed promising practices of a human rights-based approach to water with implications for Nigeria. Although past studies on access to water in Nigeria have been examined from an environmental perspective, I argue that an environmental perspective to access to water does not consider all the necessary elements, which may guarantee access to water. I address the challenges of access to water from a human rights perspective since Nigeria is a signatory to all the international instruments that recognise water as a human right. I suggest recommendations that may help realise access to domestic water in Nigeria. en_ZA
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dc.description.degree LLD en
dc.description.department Jurisprudence en
dc.identifier.citation Niyi-Gafar, OL 2017, Adopting a human rights-based approach to access to water in Nigeria : lessons from selected jurisdictions, LLD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62549> en
dc.identifier.other S2017 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62549
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en
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dc.subject UCTD en
dc.title Adopting a human rights-based approach to access to water in Nigeria : lessons from selected jurisdictions en_ZA
dc.type Thesis en


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