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Forum - International Negotiations on Forests

Helen Leake
Myrle Traverse

3 December, 2007

Article covering the history of negotiations within the United Nations Forum on Forests and the Convention on Biological Diversity, considering the avenues available for indigenous peoples to most effectively defend their rights to lands and resources within the conservation and forestry debates.
Published in "Biodiversity", the quarterly journal of TC-Biodiversity

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The UNFF fails indigenous peoples again

FPP

17 May, 2007

FPP analysis of the culmination of 7 years of UNFF sessions. The outcome is a damaging and regressive forest programme which fails to comply with international human rights or with best practice in environmental management.
May 2007

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Summary of some key intergovernmental commitments and international standards on the social and cultural aspects of forests

FPP

1 December, 2004

Existing political commitments on forests and forest peoples, focusing on the main standards under the UN Conference on Environment and Development and forest-related fauna.

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