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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… actors. However communities may also choose a non-written method of outlining the matters to be covered by their … the coastal zone. The practice of keeping a portion of a fishing ground closed off is a customary practice used by … Community on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji rely on fishing as the main source of income and on subsistence …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… environment, including such traditional activities as fishing or hunting.23 The iCCPR provides for relevant … BURDEN OF DiSEASE ASSOCiATED WiTH iNADEQUATE HOUSiNG: A METHOD GUiDE TO THE QUANTiFiCATiON OF HEALTH EFFECTS OF … of high seas fisheries resulting from unregulated fishing, over-capitalization, excessive fleet capacity, …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… approximately 90 000 people (15 000 families) living in fishing villages are threatened by the indiscriminate cutting … in legislation to allow traditional access, hunting or fishing, is explored in the writing of Henry Reynolds (1992). … still relatively unusual, are likely to be an emerging method of resolving native title claims. Native title, …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… agro-forestry, terrace agriculture, hunting, herding, and fishing – were for a long time considered inefficient, … of the right to culture, including the right to engage in fishing activities. On the other hand, it referred to its … agencies and private firms. The popularity of this method is explained by the fact that the mapping process …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… (state enterprises), or by illegal logging, hunting or fishing. A ruling awarding compensation simply moved money … are in various states of degradation – caused by dynamite fishing and other destructive fishing methods. 77 The healing of Mother Earth • Our …
Defenders of the Earth
… the livelihoods of thousands of people who depend on fishing, cattle grazing and planting crops to survive.86 It … a few weeks after speaking out on behalf of the uprooted fishing communities at a national hearing in the capital … of information. > Details about the type of act and method of violence, including the date and location. > Name …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… Government has indicated that Harava has been an efficient method of increasing the level of public participation in … on Finnmarkseiendommen’s land, including hunting, fishing and cloudberry picking. The extent of such rights is … has passed a resolution to prevent the use of destructive fishing practices after conducting its own research on the …
Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group
… in similar situations, such as peasant farmers and remote fishing communities, often live in isolated locations, away … - pollution that had devastated marine life and local fishing communities. she was charged with ‘distorting the … ’that the victim was named, that the type of act and method of violence was specified, and that the exact date and …