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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… contribute to undermining human rights (Large-scale shrimp farming threatens subsistence of coastal communities) Adapted … Scientific Conference of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). University of … (Stevens 1993). All Sherpa families continue to maintain organic farms whose potato and other fields are fertilised …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their Transboundary Fluxes (Geneva, 18 … hunting, fishing, cutting timber, gathering/ foraging, farming, scientific research (taking of specimens)? • Who … to use the area (for example for hunting, fishing, farming, gathering, spiritual activities), public rights such …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… constitute endorsement. February 2016 Cover Photo: Rice Farming, Bhutan Photo Credit: Yannick Beaudoin, GRID-Arendal … to include factors relating to the economy, tourism, farming and other activities. It has held that the right … Government representatives on the drafting of a carbon farming initiative (CFI) law (an initiative that allows …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become ill and … Trade (art. 15), the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (art. 10), and the United Nations … including the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Convention on Biological Diversity, …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Defenders of the Earth

… companies – over indigenous, traditional and small-scale farming communities, which have organised a growing … Court decisions appear to refer to the right of peasant farming communities to participate in decision-making on …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… when they would not have the animals to help them in their farming chores. They began to complain to the King and were …
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Water as a human right?

… in preserving the right to food. Water is essential for farming: almost 70% of all available freshwater is used for … and enjoyment of lake and river waters, for agricultural, farming, tourist or purposes of any other nature, that …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants … iii to the Convention.” stockholm convention on Persistent organic Pollutants 2256 u.n.T.s. 119 (may 22, 2001) The goal … quality and productivity of soil that communities use for farming, and contaminates water that people use for fishing, …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… San Juan Protocol as a ‘multi-option system’ that combines farming, fishing, mining, forestry, animal husbandry, hunting … and indirect benefits from artisanal mining, small scale farming, fishing and the use of non-timber products for …
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Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group

… la Pasion river. it was apparently caused by overflows of organic matter from effluent ponds attached to a palm oil … trade, art. 15; stockholm Convention on Persistent organic Pollutants, art. 10; united nations framework … 56. 103 see, e.g., stockholm Convention on Persistent organic Pollutants, art. 10, Convention on Biological …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance