Legal Submissions

Legal Submissions

Natural Justice has made the following legal submissions on issues of importance to our work:

UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises Submission to Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises

Submission by Natural Justice and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development on the impact of large-scale, industrial methods of extraction, production and development on the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities, 2011

 
Relevant Safeguards for REDD+ Relevant Safeguards for REDD+

Center for International Environmental Law, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, Kenya Young Greens, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Natural Justice (Section V), and BirdLife International (Section VI and VII), 2011

 
Programme of Work on Article 8(j) Programme of Work on Article 8(j) and related provisions

2011

 
Vilm Workshop on Traditional Knowledge Vilm Workshop on Traditional Knowledge

2009

 
Ad-hoc Technical Expert Group on Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources Ad-hoc Technical Expert Group on Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources

2009

 
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