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The human right to water and sanitation

… WCC-2012-Res-098-EN The human right to water and sanitation AWARE that humans depend on … halving by 2015 the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation (World Summit on Sustainable … of the vital role of ecosystem services in securing access to and maintaining the quality and quantity of water …
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Enabling the Whakatane Mechanism to contribute to conservation through securing communities' rights

… and in particular the potential role of its Standards on Access Restrictions and Indigenous Peoples in ensuring the …
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Improving governance of pastoral lands

… poverty by promoting secure tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests. This technical guide … Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAR fuzzy access rights FPIC free, prior and informed consent ICCA … security and supporting the progressive realization of the right to adequate food; (2) improving social and development …
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Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Equity in ABS Governance

… (HIVOS) to the project: “Gender Equity and Equality in the Access and Benefit Sharing of Biodiversity Resources”. … � Acronyms ABS Access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of … and women’s knowledge, skills and practices and their right to benefit from the fruits of their labour. • Sound and …
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Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level

… opportunity for the world to simultaneously ‘get things right’ for both climate and forests. In recent years, policy … Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, Access and Benefit Sharing under the Convention on Biological … und Entwicklung). xii xiii List of Acronyms ABS Access and Benefit Sharing A/R Afforestation and …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 3.4.1. Human right to water … 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, participation and access to justice .............55 3.4.3. Rights of Indigenous … ........................................106 5.7.5. Human right to water …
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Rule: Reforming water governance

… this principle, it is vital to recognize first the basic right of all human beings to have access to clean water and sanitation at an affordable price. … 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Source: …
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Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

… Cover photo: Top left: Haseeb Md Irfanullah/IUCN; top right: Adriana Faria/IUCN; bottom left: Wanda Villeda/IUCN; … rights will allow women and men to have equal rights in access to and ownership of land. In order to reach gender … knowledge about the resource, their constrained rights to access resources, which limits their economic opportunities …
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Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 57 3.4.1. Human right to water … 57 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, participation and access to justice … 101 5.7.5. Human right to water … facing the international community today is to ensure access to adequate freshwater of sufficient quality to …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Access to information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Access to justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Evaluation is a discipline and profession in its own right. There is an extensive literature, and many practice …
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