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Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation

… Job No: DEL/2144/NA Produced by UN Environment Law Division and UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring … specific treaty obligations, it should be highlighted that customary international law obliges States to conduct … respect to public participation, is not yet stipulated by customary international law. With respect to recent …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

Defenders of the Earth

… partners States have the primary duty, under international law, to guarantee that human rights defenders can carry out … as applying to all self-identified peoples who maintain customary (ie. administered under traditional systems and … in regards to the necessary consent of communities with customary relationships with their land.Q INTERNATIONAL LAW
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

… are the integration of culture and nature, the role of customary rights, the traditional institutions and exercise … entitled to all human rights recognized in international law, and that indigenous peoples possess collective rights …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… Seas Programme Tomme Rosanne Young, IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Senior Legal Officer Tony Koslow, CSIRO Australia … and interested stakeholders, including those with customary rights (Steps 1-3 need to occur from the beginning) … authorities and interested parties, including any with customary rights (e.g. ISA, IMO, neighbouring governments, …
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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… research facilities of the University of New South Wales, Law School. The Independent Expert endorses its content, … international obligations with widespread support under customary environmental law as well as human rights law. … under general principles of international law, regional customary law in Europe, as well as, arguably, emerging …
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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, California ii Copyright © United Nations … 3. Include all but de minimis domestic uses or customary uses in a permit … Aboriginal people in relation to their spiritual, social, customary and economic use of land and water, 4. to recognize …
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Developing a Global Soil Regime

… Special edition 1, 2015 International Journal of Rural Law and Policy Soil governance DEVELOPING A GLOBAL SOIL … Deputy Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law From the 1960s onwards, the global community became more … and responsibilities women perform under traditional and customary law, and the need for special assistance programs …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

Operational Guidelines for Private Sector Engagement

… another party, within existing legal frameworks (including customary law), for the execution of certain activity that implies … provided in the contractual document and/or applicable law for any suspected breach of contract (including …
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Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

… Despite this clarity in international human rights law, I am seriously concerned about the worrying figures of … 12 While States are bound by international human rights law, non-State actors are required to respect human rights, … the rights of indigenous peoples, their land rights and customary title to territories and resources; b. Formulate …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.2 International law and other instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … 2000. Step 4. Check for binding provisions in treaties and customary law Some of the above treaties contain binding … only reflected in treaties, but also in custom, although customary law in this area is increasingly becoming reflected …
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