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Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group
… world. in particular, in 2014-2015 the universal rights group (urg) and the united nations Environment Program … rights defenders, Hina Jilani, reported that: ‘defenders working on land rights, natural resources or environmental … of human rights violations, she concluded that those working on land rights and natural resource issues were the …
Report Advisory Body 'Our common dignity initiative on Rights-based Approaches in World Heritage'
… opportunities. The Background section briefly outlines the working assumptions of the Our Common Dignity initiative, … and substantive rights, and the adoption of a set of working principles. The report raises possible areas of … the end of this section. 2015 - Advisory Body Working Group continued to develop selected projects on training, …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The … Scenarios (EMPOWERS) programme regional coordinator, working in Egypt, Jordan and Palestine to develop and test … for the Eastern Cape based NGO, the Wilderness Foundation, working in the Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve. Eleanor engages …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… These examples will serve to inform and educate actors working in the field, and hopefully enable them to replicate … the interaction between various groups and organisations working in the environmental field with groups and … to diverse audiences. For example, a women-led drama group of Kaiso Tonya village in Hoima District stages …
Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders
… would be timely. The open-ended intergovernmental working group established pursuant to the resolution should fully … of organisations, to global networks of EHRDs working on similar issues. Given the nature of the work of …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… acceptable to achieve economic goals….. I’ve never seen, working for the past 10 years in the Amazon, a situation so … set out in the resolution on Human Rights Defenders working on economic, social and cultural rights adopted by … measures”) for human rights defenders17 ▶ The UN Working Group to Develop a Treaty to Prevent and Address Corporate …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… between rights, either across groups or within a single group. The right to property, e.g., may be asserted to limit … (New York, 16 December 1966) speaks primarily to the working environment, guaranteeing the right to safe and healthy working conditions (Article 7 b) and the right of children …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… ‘non-customary’ dimensions of conflict resolution. A working hypoth- esis is that these other structures must be … course to provide judges. Rather, we have a process for working with the judiciary and with local experts to meet the … in Bombay, H. C. Ravindranath and Environment Support Group in Karnataka, India, Dr Ram Boojh and 10 Judges and the …