Bulletin n. 1/2009 | ||
July 2009 | ||
Oliver Selma |
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A New Challenge to International Law: The Disappearance of the Entire Territory of a State | ||
in International Journal on Minority and Groups Rights , Volume 16, Number 2 , 2009 , 209-243 | ||
The physical disappearance of a state's entire territory is an event forecasted to happen as a result of sea-level rise, affecting some of the smallest nation states in the world, primarily islands in the South Pacific. The focus of this article is on the human rights of the inhabitants of the disappearing states when they are forced to relocate. | ||