This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approcah to address fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and accountability in refugee camps. Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the opportunity structure available to the individual. 

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has recently changed its approach to the protection of environmental rights, which are now treated as autonomously and directly justiciable, thus without having to first establish a breach of any related civil or political rights. Lhaka Honhat v Argentina is the first contentious case the Court adjudicates based on the right to a healthy environment. The judgement issued in this case, and the opportunities and challenges presented by direct justiciability of environmental rights within the Inter-American system, are critically appraised.