Articles

Natural Justice’s team members have written the following articles for peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and civil society newsletters:

	Stewarding the Commons: Rethinking Property and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights Common Voices Issue 7 (pages 20-25), 2012

	Biocultural Community Protocols: Bridging the Gap Between Customary, National and International Law Effectius Newsletter, Issue 14, 2011

	Towards a People’s History of the Law: Biocultural Jurisprudence and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing Law, Environment and Development Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, 2011

	Hacia Una Historia de la Ley de los Pueblos a Traves de la Jurisprudencia Biocultural y el Protocolo de Nagoya Sobre Acceso y Participacion en los Beneficios Law, Environment and Development Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, 2011

	Community Protocols and Access and Benefit Sharing Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, Volume 12, Number 3, 2010

	Biocultural Community Protocols and Conservation Pluralism IUCN-CEESP Policy Matters, Issue 17, 2010

	Cutting the Gordion Knot: Resolving Conflicts Over the Term “Utilisation” Bridges Trade BioRes Review, Volume 4, Number 3, 2010

	How Bio-cultural Community Protocols Can Empower Local Communities Endogenous Development Magazine, Issue 6, 2010

	A Rights-based Approach to Supporting Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas CBD-civil society [square brackets] newsletter, Issue 3 (see pg 9), 2010

	ABS+ ECO, WGABS9 coverage (see pg 6), 2010

	REDD Community Protocols: A Community Approach to Ensuring the Local Integrity of REDD Stakeholder Forum, Outreach Special Post-COP15 Issue (see pg 7-8), 2010

	The Bushbuckridge Healers’ Path to Justice UNESCO, A World of Science (see pg 18-20), 2010

	No Narrowing of the Definition of Traditional Knowledge ECO, WGABS8 coverage (see pg 3), 2009

	Towards a Traditional Knowledge Commons ECO, WGABS8 coverage (see pg 2), 2009

	Bio-cultural Community Protocols as a Community-based Approach to Ensuring the Local Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy CBD-civil society [square brackets] newsletter, Issue 2, 2009

	Shifting Sands of ABS Best Practice: Hoodia from the Community Perspective UNU-IAS, TK Bulletin, 2009

Latest News

19th Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation
Peter Wood, Natural Justice Associate, attended the 19th Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation, 9-10 February in London. The meeting focussed on the implementation of the EU Timber Regul …
MPCA Workshop in Uttarakkand
Medicinal Plants Conservation Areas (MPCAs) in India are bioculturally rich areas of land with a high prevalence of endemic medicinal plants. MPCAs are usually demarcated by communities or by the gove …
Meeting on Increasing Number of BCR Lawyers
On the 13th of February, Kabir Bavikatte and Harry Jonas (Natural Justice) met with Antara Lahiri (Ashoka Law for All) and Vivek Maru (Namati) to discuss how best to increase the numbers of lawyers fo …
Maldhari Community Claims Traditional Lands
In the face of government attempts to ban livestock in their traditional grasslands, the Maldhari community of the Banni grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat, India sent notices to their state government dema …
New Article on Stewarding the Commons
Natural Justice’s own Kabir Bavikatte recently authored “Stewarding the Commons: Rethinking Property and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights” for the Common Voices newsletter of the Dakshin Foundation …

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