International Human Rights and Governing Land Grabbing: A View from Global Civil Society

Globalizations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-139

  Künnemann, Rolf ^a   Monsalve Suárez, Sofía ^a  

^a FIAN International   (Germany)

Author keywords

extraterritorial obligations; FIAN; human rights; international law; land grabbing; right to land

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874140072     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.760933     Document Type: Article

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