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Land and human rights: Towards a rights-based approach for addressing commercial pressures on land
… Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a General Comment on land and human rights can offer strategic direction for efforts to secure land … Land and human rights: Towards a rights-based approach for addressing commercial …
Publication, 01 October 2019
Climate Change and Human Development
Publication, 01 July 2014
A Batwa man sits with his hands cupping his head
Conservation Initiative on Human Rights
… and help sustain their livelihoods. The Conservation Initiative on Human Rights (CIHR) is a collaboration between eight international … The idea of working collectively to develop common principles on human rights and conservation was first discussed at a meeting of the … 2009 the identity and configuration of the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights (CIHR) had been established along with a set of operating …
Project, 16 August 2013
Lake Bogoria, the ancestral land of the Endorois people, Kenya (Photo: Emma Eastwood/MRG)
Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part I)
… law to answer the following three questions: Which actors bear human rights obligations and responsibilities in the context of … available to peoples and communities in cases of violations of their human rights? The results were published in the run-up to the World … of conservation standards . The first publication in the series was " Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Part I: Which standards apply …
Article, 30 July 2014
A group of women lean over a map laid out on grass outside.
Securing tenure and building resilience: lessons from Harare
… clearances, underscores the tension between urban development and human rights. Although the sheer scale of the city’s informal …
Article, 24 April 2026
Human rights and investor obligations in investor-state arbitration
… relationship between international investment law and international human rights law raises probing questions about the structure and … of international law. Yet despite much scholarly and activist debate, human rights issues have tended to have a relatively marginal place in … relied extensively – and almost exclusively – on international human rights law. The award is also notable for its discussion of …
Publication, 01 January 2016
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Addressing the human rights impacts of ‘land grabbing’
… This Study discusses the human rights issues raised by large-scale land deals for plantation … Secondly, the Study conceptualises the link between land deals and human rights, reviews relevant international human rights law and discusses evidence on actual and potential human … Addressing the human rights impacts of ‘land grabbing’ …
Publication, 01 December 2014
A queue of cars seen through a foggy pollution haze.
US to repeal climate 'endangerment finding'
… we have found. "These problems have very real consequences for human health – often affecting the poorest people the most – and the …
News, 12 February 2026
Flamingos around Lake Bogoria, the ancestral land of the Endorois people, Kenya (Photo: Minority Rights Group International)Lake Bogoria, the ancestral land of the Endorois people, Kenya (Photo: Emma Eastwood/MRG)
Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part II)
… law to answer the following three questions: Which actors bear human rights obligations and responsibilities in the context of … available to peoples and communities in cases of violations of their human rights? The results were published in the run-up to the World … a set of conservation standards . The second in the series was " Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Part II: Which international …
Article, 11 November 2014
Around 3,000 Samburu families have been affected by land purchase at Laikipia National Park in Kenya (Photo: Alfredo Miguel Romero via Creative Commons)
Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part III)
… law to answer the following three questions: Which actors bear human rights obligations and responsibilities in the context of … available to peoples and communities in cases of violations of their human rights? The results were published in the run-up to the World … a set of conservation standards . The third in the series was " Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Part III: Which redress …
Article, 12 November 2014