Category: indigenous peoples
15.01.2018
Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions
In 1998, the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP4) established an Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional…
05.01.2018
The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge: article 8(j)
As previously noted, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) considers the protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK) as a…
30.12.2017
Traditional Knowledge in the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21
The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 provide explicit international recognition of the symbiotic aspects of indigenous peoples’ relationship…
24.12.2017
The protection of Traditional Knowledge under the Convention on Biological Diversity: introduction
Today we start discovering how the Convention on Biological Diversity protects the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples…
12.12.2017
Objective 1: Conservation of Biodiversity
With the Convention on Biological Diversity, for the first time in history, the conservation of biological diversity is…
25.11.2017
The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
On 22 April 2009 President Evo Morales Ayma, first Indigenous president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, requested…
23.11.2017
The Rights of Pacha Mama in Ecuador and Bolivia
Please read also: Indigenous Peoples as Earth defenders and legal innovators – the Rights of Nature The Ecuadorian…