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Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world Katrina … land tenure, this would offer a more diverse and flexible range of tenure options as a basis for solving many resource … to institutional arrangements and customary law.41 These range from a broad recognition of customary authorities or …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… environmental law and policy. The term encompasses a broad range of practices and procedures, both written and … other resources. These practices and procedures cover a range of matters, including how ILCs expect external actors … in the Nagoya Protocol to the CBD. Under Article 12.3(a), State Parties are encouraged to “endeavour to support” the …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… alia, administration of tenure, land reform, management of state land, resolving land disputes, attracting sustainable … of customary land rights xi 1. Flexibly allow for the full range of customs within a nation to be expressed and … South Africa and others have followed, adopting a wide range of mechanisms and strategies to varying degrees of …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… life. This book illustrates the application of BCPs to a range of environmental legal frameworks. Part I focuses on … clear. 4 Users of GR will be expected to fulfill a range of obligations in order to gain access to GR and … bio-cultural self that Article 8(j) seeks to affirm. The State as the legal subject under Article 15 is typical of the …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… was proclaimed in 1975. For the first four decades of the state’s existence, the country’s ethnic populations were … identified different kinds of customary protection and a range of largely self- enforced penalties under customary … much dependent on the seriousness of the crime, and may range from a chicken, to a pig, cow or buffalo. After the …
Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone
… The focus of the present study is on the range of non‐judicial GRMs, which deal with land disputes … powers. These Councils have been assigned a range of general and specific duties which … General duty personnel reported that they handle a range of land‐related disputes including trespass, …
Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… concern has grown steadily over the years. Some inter-state efforts to address problems relating to the oceans, … agreement” in its generic sense embraces the widest range of international instruments. In the practice of … less formal than a “treaty” and deals with a narrower range of subject matter. There is a general tendency to apply …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… law, thus adding greater legitimacy and efficacy to the State’s efforts towards conservation of natural resources in … of grain, equivalent to approximately 1kg Shamilat – range lands Sharba – member of a village council in Rondu; … in irrigated areas; n lower area pastures called shamilat (range lands). In general, communities, not individuals, own …
Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… and human rights treaties which are binding for respective State Parties; ii. … sector, whereas existing reviews can range from a … assist both state and non‐state actors to take stock of the … laws and regulations in the range of areas related to agriculture and food …
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… variety of sources, including treaties and other forms of state practice, and the work of international organizations. … In that decision, the ICJ referred to what it called a state’s “basic right to an equitable and reasonable sharing … list of factors to be taken into account by a state to ensure that its utilization of an international …