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KENEDY BINDU
Prof. Dr. Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, LLD, LLM, LLB
Primary Research Interests
- Human rights & the environment
- International environmental law
Secondary Research Interests
- Environmental impact assessment
- Indigenous peoples & the environment
- Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
Selected Publications
Chair of Environmental Law and Natural Resources
Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs
Envir-RN/ULPGL – Goma/R.D.Congo
Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, « La répression des atteintes environnementales en République Démocratique du Congo, note explicative », Academy of Environmental Law, Issue 13, January 2024, disponible en ligne : https://fr.scribd.com/document/771821813/IUCN eJournal-Issue-13
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, Traité de droit de l’environnement : Perspectives Congolaises, (2022), Globethics.net, African law series, 12, Genève, disponible en ligne https://repository.globethics.net/handle/20.500.12424/4291187
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, « Le droit à la réparation des victimes des crimes internationaux dans la jurisprudence de la Cour Pénale Internationale », Universidade Fumec, Revista Meritum, Belo Horizonte, vol. 15, no 2, 2020, disponible en ligne : https://revista.fumec.br/
index.php/meritum/article/ view/8026 - Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, “Exercice de la souveraineté permanente d’un Etat sur ses ressources naturelles : Quelle gestion des ressources naturelles transfrontalières à l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo” Universidade Fumec, Meritum, Belo Horizonte, V. 14, Janvier – Juin 2019, disponible en ligne : https://revista.fumec.br/index.php/meritum/article/view/7139
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, Patrick Vinck, Phuong N Pham, Juliet Bedford and Eric J Nilles, “Institutional trust and misinformation in the response to the 2018-19 Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, DR Congo: a population-based survey”, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 19, May 2019, available on: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1473309919300635
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, “Environmental Law of the Democratic Republic of Congo”, Thomson Reuters, Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation, 6/2017, 16A 1-45.
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, "Country Report: Democratic Republic of Congo," IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, E Journal, Issue 6: 2015. Available online: https://www.iucnael.org/en/
academy-journal/previous- issues/86-journal/issue/615- issue-2015 - Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, “La justiciabilité du droit à l’environnement consacré par la Charte Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples de 1981 en République Démocratique du Congo”, Revista Catalana De Dret Ambiental, Vol. IV, N°1, 2013, PP. 1-34, https://www.raco.cat/index.php/rcda/article/view/272080
- Kihangi Bindu Kennedy “L’exploitation minière et les impératifs environnementaux légaux en République Démocratique du Congo : Cas de la Province du Nord Kivu” in Mwapu Isumbisho, Karhagomba Balagizi,Mulume Mapatano & Deogratias Niyonkuru (S/dir.) Gouvernance des ressources naturelles collectives des écosystèmes fragiles dans la région des grands lacs Africains, Editions du CERUKI (Centre de Recherches Universitaires du Kivu), Mars 2013.
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu « Environmental legal requirements and the exploitation of natural resources in a post conflict country: A case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo” (2012), The A38 Journal of International Law, Vol. 1, Edition3.
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu « L’exploitation du pétrole du lac Edouard et la loi environnementale en République Démocratique du Congo » (2011) Legal Working Paper Series, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), disponible sur : www.cisdl.org
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu Environmental and developmental rights in the Southern African Development Community: Specific reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of South Africa (2011) LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.
- Kihangi Bindu Kennedy «The environmental law framework of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the balancing of interests» in Michael Faure & Willemien du Plessis (Dir.), The balancing of interests in environmental law in Africa, Pretoria University Law Press, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2011, available online : https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/catalogue/edited-collections/the-balancing-of-interests-in environmental-law-in-africa
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, the precautionary principle in the protection of the environment, (2009) 45th session, United Nations International Law seminar / working group on the future role of the International Law Commission: selection of new topics / Geneva.
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, Human security in the SADC Region with specific reference to the Republic of Malawi, (2007) Africa Institute of South Africa / Young Graduate and Scholars Program, Pretoria/South Africa
- Kennedy Kihangi Bindu, The role of the South African Constitutional Court in the promotion of constitutionalism, separation of powers and democracy, (2007), University of South Africa/Pretoria.