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

 
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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