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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… OIE World Organisation for Animal Health TRIPS … WHO World Health Organization WTO World Trade Organization … potential for both public and private agricultural … policy goals, encouraging much needed responsible public and private agricultural investment to enhance …
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… that courts shall apply customary law not contrary to public order57 and Liberia requires courts to apply both … to actions that do not “affect general interests and public order”. The scope and modalities of these measures as … relating to all of the main topics identified, as well as health, education and intellectual property. In contrast to …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… NSW, an independent community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law, and the Division of … 10 2.1 Bio-Cultural Community Protocol of the Traditional Health Practitioners of Bushbuckridge, South Africa 11 2.2 … 10 has three pillars: promoting access to information, public participation, and access to justice. The …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… and each plays an essential role in the survival and health of the natural world. • Human beings are not separate … ICCAs are often being abandoned or lost. At the same time, public recognition of ICCAs can be crucial for some … for residents and visitors. Inclusion of ICCAs in public databases also requires that some amount of data …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… Hussain, Deputy Director LB&RD; Dr. Sher Wali, Director Health; and Ch. Khalid Mahmood, Mr. Shahzada Ibrahim, Mr. … Areas Chaksi – musk Charbo – person responsible for making public announcements on behalf of a Raja Chari dar – 12-bore … Kashmir. The Maharaja then decided to join India despite public opinion. This gave rise to dissension amongst the …
Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone
… in the policy, to the public structures and processes through which rights in … sometimes straddling both systems are public, private and other community‐based … of complementing judicial systems with state/public, customary and corporate mechanisms …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… over 1,000 staff in 45 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. … to improve livelihood security, human and ecosystem health. www.iucn.org/asia/mekong_dialogues Contents FOREWORD … fishery for consumption and [for producing] food for the public, raw materials to supply industrial processing …
Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… environment is a relatively recent phenomenon. General public awareness of the problems relating to the global … International Lakes with its 1999 Protocol on Water and Health and its 2003 (Kiev) Protocol on Civil Liability and …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… may be done by establishing new roles for the state and public officials on the one hand, while on the other hand … in this way: (1) the legislative strategy involves public authorities "setting the rules regulating local land … others of which are held communally in furtherance of the health, prosperity and religious practices of the greater …