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UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders

… policy proposes how UN Environment who are defending their environmental environmental rights which affects Mandate UN Environment … of the environment; • UN Environment Programme and law for environmental • The outcome of the meeting midterm review of … Environmental Governance …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Book – Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) Book to Unit 3 – Principles and … harm irrespective of whether or not there is transboundary impact or international responsibility. The concept of … rise to a multitude of legal mechanisms, including prior assessment of environmental harm, licensing or authorization …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… supported by State practice, including in international environmental instruments and before human rights bodies. As … laws, policies or practices have a disproportionate impact on the exercise of human rights as distinguished by … enjoyment of human rights, States should require the prior assessment of the possible environmental impacts of proposed …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Research (UNITAR) based on its course “Human Rights and Environmental Protection for Sustainable Development”, which … degradation to speak and influence the decisions that will impact their basic human rights, such right to life and … access, States have affirmative duties to provide for the assessment of the potential impacts of proposed projects and …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… ENVIRONMENT: THE KILLING AND CRIMINALIZATION OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS WORLDWIDE ON DANGEROUS GROUND THE … communities to remedy and redress any direct and indirect impact of human rights abuses ▶ Prioritise actions to tackle … AND TIMBER EXPORTERS In 2013, the last time a global assessment was made, Brazil accounted for 25% of the world’s …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… 5 1.3 IPCC 2007 FOURTH ASSESSMENT REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, ADAPTATIONS AND … 41 i 4.3.3 The projected impact of climate change on … ones who are at greatest risk. However, for these people environmental variability and change is not novel or … past these communities have been exposed to many kinds of environmental changes and have developed coping strategies to …
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

… of the right to adequate food, poverty eradication, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic … to adequate food, livelihoods and the environment. This assessment process should be conducted consistent with the … implementation in their jurisdictions; and to evaluate the impact on improved governance of tenure of land, fisheries …
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… ecologically sustainable. The Union is the world’s largest environmental knowledge network, and has helped over 75 … . . . 31 4. Local adaptations of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment conceptual framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … management of sacred natural sites will have a large impact on enhancing biodiversity conservation, as well as on …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… to improve the integration of spiritual, cultural and environmental values, Catalonia, Spain Josep-Maria Mallarach … source of revenue for the area, but has also had a major impact both on the forest and on the religious values of … by which mapping exercises are to be con- ducted, the assessment of a compre- hensive system for storing these …
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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

… of indigenous peoples’ human rights. The negative impact on the life and natural resources of indigenous … para el Desarrollo Convention on Biological Diversity Environmental and social management guidelines Food and … CONSENT MANUAL 16 • Complete, including a preliminary assessment of the possible economic, social, cultural and …
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