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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

Governing Natural Resource Management in the Northern Areas C … s t o m a r y Planning & Development Dept., Northern Areas Governing Natural Resource Management in the Northern Areas C … by the fact that, despite the existence of a large body of statutory laws aimed at promoting responsible and …
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

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

… on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), the body of experts appointed to oversee compliance with the … Commission on Environment and Development, an independent body linked to but outside the UN system, and later more … of the Environment Bali Guidelines In 2010 the UNEP Governing Council adopted the Bali Guidelines for the …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… ©Henry Langston/Vice News Below: Emerito Samarca’s dead body was found bearing visible signs of torture days after … paramilitary group and later found dead, his body bearing evidence of torture. Witnesses reported that the … of the Lumad people. It must: ▶ Create an independent body to investigate extrajudicial killings and other abuses …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… decision should be sub- ject to review by an independent body. The procedure should also provide for monitoring of the … resources; (d) incorporate a right of appeal to a higher body; and (e) issue binding decisions, including for interim …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders

… synergies in the protection of human rights Programme Governing Council Decision 27/9 on advancing sustainability; … affecting people, including women environmental treaty body reviews and Universal Periodic Reviews. The the analysis …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

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

26 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas

… situ a tions, trying to under stand and apply an evolving body of inter na tional and national laws and regu la tions … ques tion about a govern ment-estab lished protected area governing body is whether it embraces an “exclu sive” or … there is a need to modify the national legal frame work governing protected areas so as to provide an insti tu- tion …
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Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas

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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… sacred places and species on it, which can be said to em- body special spiritual connections to the ancestral beings … conservation and sustaina- bility under the legislation governing the foundation of the National Forest System. The … areas affected); 9. The implementation of rational rules governing agricultural practice3, such as cultivation in …
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