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The Aarhus Convention: An implementation guide. Securing the public's rights through access to information, public participation and Access to justice for a healthy environment
… Implementation Guide Securing the public’s rights through access to information, public participation and access to … environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport”.31 Health is explicitly referred to … the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites, biological diversity and …
The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
… CONVENTIONTHE AARHUS CONVENTION AN IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE access to information public participation access to justice … at the Second Ministerial Conference in Lucerne, Switzer- land, in April 1993. At that meeting, the Senior Advisers to … environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport”.24 “Environment and Health” The …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… Informed Consent (FPIC) before enacting projects on their land. This is in defence of their ancestral territories and … exhausted, there has been no thought to the state of the land in the aftermath of any of these interventions. Desert … resources. From what we have seen, despite having access to these resources, this development does not reach …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… healthy and sustainable environment. 1. See Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision- Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, art. 1; African … conducted with due respect for the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the peoples or communities …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… obligations used to protect the environment, including access to information, public participation, and access to … is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human …
Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… on areas such as environmental impact assessment, access to environmental information, participation in … development and livelihood. In many ASEAN countries, land resources and terrestrial ecosystems are under … due to growing population and extension of agricultural land into forest and other ecologically sensitive areas. …