What Happens next Is up to You: Human Rights at Risks in Dams and Development
![handle is hein.journals/amuilr16 and id is 1521 raw text is: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT ]IS UP TO YOU:
HUMAN RIGHTS AT RISK IN DAMS AND
DEVELOPMENT
UPENDRA BAXI
INTRODUCTION ............................................. 1507
I. REGIMES OF REPRESENTATION ....................... 1511
II. HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE WCD REPORT ................ 1515
III. TOWARDS A CRITIQUE ................................. 1518
A. HUMAN RIGHTS REGIMES AND THE DAM DISPLACED
PEOPLES ................................................. 15 19
B. TOWARDS A SPECIFIC REGIME OF HUMAN RIGHTS'? ....... 1522
CONCLUSION: THE TASKS AHEAD ........................ 1527
INTRODUCTION
The Executive Summary prefacing the World Commission on
Dams (WCD) Report (Report)' concludes elegantly by saying:
We have told you the story. What happens next is up to you.2 The
Report tells a story about the inevitable justification of developing
large dams.' Underlying issues of the dams debate involve equity,
governance, justice and power-issues that underlie the many
intractable problems faced by humanity.4 This implicit division of
* Professor of Law, University of Warwick. Cyberlocation: U-
Baxi@email.msn.com.
1. See generally WORLD COMMISSION ON DAMS, DAMS AND DEVELOPMENT:
A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION-MAKING xxxvii (Earthscan 2000) [hereinafter
WCD REPORT].
2. Id. at xxxvii.
3. See id. at xxvii (highlighting the importance and benefits of dams for
human use).
4. See id. (remarking on the issues encompassed by the dams debate).
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