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

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Recognizing the indigenous territories as conservation areas in the Amazon Basin

… tropical forest ecosystem in the world, covering an area of 7.8 million km2, and that it holds the greatest …
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UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders

… IV) which identified human rights emerging priority area; and Assembly Resolution 2/19 on the Midterm review of … Support the responsible management patterns, including in protected and environmental rule of law • Request government … management of natural resources, production and protected areas, through strong institutions, effective law; …
17 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … 85 5 A Rights-based Approach in Protected Areas … 88 II Understanding Protected Areas … people who depend on the natural resources found in this area, and climate change mitigation projects might lead to …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… position papers describe RBAs in a variety of contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and … Chapter 9 Seeking respect for a Sherpa community conserved area: 203 Responsibility, recognition and rights in the Mount … your obligations: 233 Questions of equity in Indonesia’s protected areas Moira Moeliono and Elizabeth Linda Yuliani …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… and coordinated by UNEP-DELC through a Partnership for Protected Areas in support of the LifeWeb Initiative of the … platform for financing biodiversity that promotes protected areas conservation and community development … Southern India 12 2.5 Navakavu Locally Managed Marine Area Framework, Fiji 13 Chapter 3: Common underlying …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of … Protected Rights … Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San … have produced general comments linking the rights protected under the respective instrument with environmental …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of … including air and water resources, soil and earth, protected areas, and biological diversity; environmental … stage, their rights related to participation are better protected Tarkkailija is part of e-services initiative that …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of … individual’s right to have his or her life respected and protected by law.49 In the case of Yanomami v. Brazil50 the … to health and to live in a healthy environment is already protected by law, the Convention requires that the law be …
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Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention

… 2008); ALSO RECALLING Resolution 4.048 Indigenous peoples, protected areas and implementation of the Durban Accord, … with indigenous peoples’ organizations to… ensure that protected areas which affect or may affect indigenous … making concerning the “Kenya Lake System” World Heritage area, through their own representative institutions, and to …
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