The power of human rights to protect tenure rights

A call to human rights and land actors to join hands and advance human rights-based approaches to land governance.

Grabbing land to save the planet or using the power of human rights ...

Tenure rights of millions of smallholder farmers and pastoralists, women, and indigenous peoples, as well as urban dwellers around the world, ...

Security of Tenure as a Measurable Element of the Human Right to ...

Expanding the concept of secure tenure is a useful intellectual exercise that helps identify the contours of an ideal world. Applying the concept now calls for ...

Securing Rights | World Resources Institute

Tenure-secure indigenous and community lands can generate significant social, economic, and environmental benefits for local populations and society.

Protecting Legitimate Tenure Rights - Rachael Knight

They also affirm the responsibility of businesses to respect all legitimate tenure rights, linking tenure issues to businesses' wider human ...

Legal empowerment to promote legitimate tenure rights

protect their rights within their families and communities. • Electing women to land governance bodies; when women have decision-making power, they often take ...

Protecting legitimate tenure rights: From concepts to practice

They also affirm the responsibility of businesses to respect all legitimate tenure rights, linking tenure issues to businesses' wider human ...

GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON SECURITY OF TENURE FOR ... - ohchr

powers, including the right to sell, in the collective. Collective ... human rights standards and extended to protect and promote security of tenure.90.

recognition and respect for tenure rights | IUCN.org

this paper discusses why secure tenure rights for local communities, indigenous peoples and women are central to good natural resource governance and important ...

Is land tenure a human right? Legally yes, as new digital Navigator ...

Human rights protect tenure rights, as a new digital tool shows · How was the Navigator conceived? · And how does that work? · How does the ...

Arguments for a Rights-Based Approach to Land Tenure Reform

In the past, the human rights agenda lacked persuasive power over international development practitioners for two main reasons: 1) human rights are inherently.

Securing Land Tenure and Property Rights for Stability and Prosperity

Around the world millions of people, communities, and businesses lack clear, secure rights to the land, resources, and property they use, occupy, and depend on ...

TENURE RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND REDD+ - Climatelinks

They may be granted as statutory rights through the power of the State as ... policies and procedures to help protect and respect rights during the planning and ...

Voluntary guidelines on the governance of tenure at a glance

Civil society organizations can work to raise awareness and assist people to enjoy and protect their tenure rights. They can promote the participation of the ...

The power of human rights to protect tenure rights: A call for a ...

The power of human rights to protect tenure rights: A call for a human rights-based approach to land governance. Programme. The program will be moderated by ...

Tenure | AAUP

The principal purpose of tenure is to safeguard academic freedom, which is necessary for all who teach and conduct research in higher education. When faculty ...

The Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure at a ...

More than three years after the adoption of the Tenure Guidelines land and natural resource grabs in all forms continue unabated around the ...

LAND TENURE AND RIGHTS - UNCCD

Secure land tenure and property rights enable people in urban and rural areas to develop sustainable land use practices. Although many countries have completely ...

Accounting for existing tenure and rights over marine and freshwater ...

Global commitments to conservation and sustainable development increasingly demand sensitivity to the rights and territories of Indigenous ...

Resolving forest tenure is key to promoting sustainable development ...

Resolving forest tenure is key to promoting sustainable development and human rights ... Imagine that you're standing in a forest. Far below your feet, there ...