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Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley

Lecturer in Law, Guest Lecturer in Human Rights Law at the University of Bergen, Norway

Amanda’s research is centred around international human rights. She is particularly interested in economic, social and cultural rights; conflict and transitional justice; international humanitarian law; human rights and development and the rights of women and children.  Amanda is also concerned with human rights in a UK context and research methods and human rights.

International human rights

Amanda’s book The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was published in April 2011 by Routledge. The book provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which declares access to clean water and sanitation a human right (New York, Jul 28, 2010), the recent appointment of the UN Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and movement within the NGO community for an international water treaty. Amanda Cahill Ripley analyses the current legal status, substantive content, and obligations correlative to the right, and examines the relationship between other economic, social and cultural rights related to the right to water. The book goes on to look more specifically at the application of the human right to water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Using innovative methodology, Cahill Ripley combines legal analysis with a qualitative social science empirical case study to explore the enjoyment of the right ‘on the ground’. The wider implications of the case study findings are then considered, looking at what can be done to strengthen the right legally in terms of its status and codification, and what remedy can be found for violations of the right, both specifically in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in a more general context.’ (Routledge book description).

Amanda has also written several book chapters and journal articles on this area of her research. The complete list can be found on Amanda's research profile.

Most recently Amanda has been working on research concerning economic and social rights and transitional justice, with a paper to be presented at a one day workshop at the University of Bergen in September, involving the Faculty of Law and the Christian Michelson Institute. Other forthcoming events include the Economic & Social Rights Academic Network UK and Ireland Conference on November 30th 2012 at Lancaster University, which Amanda is organising (jointly) & presenting at.

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