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Shipbreaking in Developing Countries: A Requiem for Environmental Justice from the Perspective of Bangladesh, by Md Saiful Karim Routledge, 2018, 150 pp, £120 hb, £35.99 e-bk ISBN 9781138818200 hb, 9781315745404 e-bk

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Shipbreaking in Developing Countries: A Requiem for Environmental Justice from the Perspective of Bangladesh, by Md Saiful Karim Routledge, 2018, 150 pp, £120 hb, £35.99 e-bk ISBN 9781138818200 hb, 9781315745404 e-bk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

Ashraful Alam
Ashraful Alam*
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Western Sydney University, Sydney (Australia)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 388 - 392
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References

1 P. Gwin, ‘The Shipbreakers’, National Geographic, May 2014, available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2014/05/The-Ship-Breakers.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.

5 NGO Shipbreaking Platform, ‘The Problem’, available at: https://www.shipbreakingplatform.org/our-work/the-problem. China and Turkey also have sizeable shipbreaking industries, but their operations are reportedly cleaner and better regulated: ibid.

6 Ibid.; Gwin, n. 1 above.

7 Hong Kong (China), 19 May 2009, not in force, IMO Doc. SR/CONF/45, available at: http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/ShipRecycling/Pages/Default.aspx.

8 Sen, A., The Idea of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Paris (France), 10 Dec. 1948, GA Res. 217A (III), UN Doc. A/810, 71, available at: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights.

10 New York, NY (US), 16 Dec. 1966, in force 23 Mar. 1976, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx.

11 New York, NY (US), 16 Dec. 1966, in force 3 Jan. 1976, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspx.

12 Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, 4 Nov. 1972, in force 16 Dec. 1972, available at: http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/pdf_part.php?id=367. Part II of the Bangladesh Constitution provides the fundamental principles of state policy that are not judicially enforceable, but these principles are fundamental for the governance of Bangladesh.

13 Montego Bay (Jamaica), 10 Dec. 1982, in force 16 Nov. 1994, available at: http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/closindx.htm.

14 Basel (Switzerland), 22 Mar. 1989, in force 5 May 1992, available at: http://www.basel.int.

15 London (UK), 2 Nov. 1973, in force after the 1978 London Protocol on 2 Oct. 1983, available at: http://www.imo.org/about/conventions/listofconventions/pages/international-convention-for-the-prevention-of-pollution-from-ships-(marpol).aspx.

16 Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 11 Sept. 1998, in force 24 Feb. 2004, available at: http://www.pic.int.

17 N. 7 above.

18 Act No. 1 of 1995, 30 May 1995, available at: http://extwprlegs1.fao.org/docs/pdf/bgd42272.pdf.

19 Act No. 26 of 1994 13 Dec. 1994, available at: https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/workgroups/bdlaw/1994-a26.htm.

20 Ordinance No. XXVI of 1983, 30 June 1983, available at: http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/pdf_part.php?id=642.

21 Act No. XXVI of 1974, 14 Feb. 1974, available at: http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/pdf_part.php?id=467.