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Dramatic growth in laws to protect environment, but widespread failure to enforce, finds report

24 Jan 2019 News in

Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… Sonia Smallacombe, Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Division of Social Policy and Development … on Biological Diversity 23 4.2 Nagoya Protocol 24 4.3 ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No 169) 25 4.4 UN … of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems (CBD, Article 2). …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… 7 Rights-based conservation and the quality of life of 163 indigenous people in the Bolivian Chaco Michael Painter … CNP Chitwan National Park (Nepal) COICA Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin Rights-based … and production of medicines for local sale. Native species are also being used to regenerate forests and a form …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… forest degradation SATIIM Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management UNDP United Nations Development … to take into account the adequate participation of indigenous and local communities and the respect for their … rights–complaint procedures to protect nature or other species have had only limited success.5 Yet with close to 115 …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… Convention Concerning indigenous and Tribal Peoples in independent Countries … Declaration on the Rights of indigenous Peoples 2007 … Convention on international Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora … to make available information on Specially Protected Species and Protected Areas. Annex V on Area Protection …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 5. Access and Benefit Sharing regarding Natural Resources Indigenous and local communities Prior informed consent 6. … to remedy environmental injury: the extinction of a species of fauna or flora, erosion, loss of human life and … and Benefit Sharing regarding Natural Resources Many indigenous and other local communities rely on natural …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… the needs and capacities of present generations of all species with those of the future. Combining the two … whose participation is needed: women, young persons, indigenous and local populations, nongovernmental … in vulnerable situations, including women, children, and indigenous peoples, will be most at risk. The study also …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… of Youth, the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, and the National Institute for Women. … Awareness Raising, Environmental Human Rights Defenders, Indigenous, Network, Support Description: For the past 25 … often focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, …
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Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report

… holders, including the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Special Rapporteur on the right to … on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, … to 3°C, 20 to 30 per cent of the assessed plant and animal species are likely to be at a high risk of extinction.20 The …
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Prevention, management and resolution of social conflict as a key requirement for conservation and management of ecosystems

… resources; CONCERNED that social conflicts involving indigenous peoples and local communities also emerge in the … gives rise to conflicts involving conservation agencies, indigenous peoples and local communities, civil society … particularly around conservation actions to protect species that impact local communities from a social, economic …
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