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Intangible Heritage Committee recognizes indigenous and traditional cultural practices
UNESCO release, 29 November 2011 | BALI, INDONESIA: The sixth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage was held from 22-29 November 2011, in Bali, Indonesia. During the meeting, 11 items were added to the List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and 19 others were inscribed on the Representative List, while five best safeguarding practices were selected. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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CEESP North America - Building a Regional Identity
Iain Davidson-Hunt and Peggy Smith, Vice-Chairs, CEESP, North America - In preparing for the IUCN Canada and the US Office of IUCN meetings to provide input to the 2012-2016 draft work program of IUCN, it became apparent that while CEESP has a large North America membership it is not one which interacts on a regional basis. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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Report out on Complaint made under OCED Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
The Norwegian Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) received a complaint against Intex Resources ASA (Intex) from the Future In Our Hands (FIOH) on 26 January 2009 concerning the Mindoro Nickel Project (MNP) in the Philippines. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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Update on the Sharing Power: A New Vision for Development Conference
The key messages of the Sharing Power Conference provided guidance to the CEESP Executive Committee in the recent 3-day planning session for the new CEESP manadate and work programme to be presented to the World Conservation Congress being held in Jeju, South Korea (September 2012). …
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The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD
The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life calls for a moratorium on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) at the 17th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), until the following concerns are fully addressed and resolved. However, we reserve the right to expand these demands. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights
By Johannes Stahl
Edited by Thomas Sikor
A human rights-based agenda has received significant attention in writings on general development policy, but less so in forestry. Forests and People presents a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda in forestry, connecting it with existing work on tenure reform, governance rights, and cultural rights,. As the editors note in their introduction, the attention to rights in forestry differs from 'rights-based approaches' in international development and other natural resource fields in three critical ways.
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Call for papers: Culture, Climate and Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods
The new, open-access transdisciplinary journal "Culture, Climate and Change: Biocultural Systems and Livelihoods" (CCC:BSL) aims to critically engage with and disseminate biocultural approaches to understanding and responding to climate change and global change processes. The first issue is now open for submissions. Contributions should emphasise the interconnected reality of indigenous biocultural systems and how they enable adaptive capacity, resilience and mitigation. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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The Green Development Initiative by CEESP member Francis Vorhies
The Green Development Initiative has published a Reference Guide for review called Conserving our planet, hectare by hectare. The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is an international response to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. It aims to establish an international standard and certification scheme for CBD-compliant land management. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development
The lives of women around the world have improved dramatically, at a pace and scope difficult to imagine even 25 years ago. Women have made unprecedented gains in rights, education, health, and access to jobs and livelihoods. More countries than ever guarantee equal rights in property, marriage, and other domains. Gendergaps in primary schooling have closed in many countries, while in a third of all countries girls now outnumber boys in secondary school. …
07 Dec 2011 | Article
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Indigenous and local communities meet with governments to discuss traditional knowledge and the implementation of the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 Montreal, 1 November 2011
Representatives of indigenous and local communities from around the world are meeting side by side with delegates from Governments for this week in Montreal to discuss ways to integrate traditional knowledge related to biodiversity protection into the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted by the Parties to the Convention in Nagoya, Japan, in October last year. …
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