Conservation & Rights - Positions and Guidance of the BirdLife Partnership

In the implementation of its projects and programmes BirdLife aims to: understand the roles of women and men in the places where we work and the implications for conservation and natural resource management, based on an analysis of gender differentiated data from the local context and knowledge about women’s rights and gender related policies at the national level; carry out gender-sensitive c. [...] NB: This is a guidance document, and not a position adopted on behalf of the partnership Main objective Invite them to contribute to programmes and projects with their traditional natural resource management practices and knowledge; The objective of the Position Statement is to ensure that the rights and needs of indigenous Integrate gender and equity concerns in all dealings with indigenous p. [...] The Position Statement refers to the commitment of the BirdLife position on conservation and rights: Respect internationally proclaimed human rights as contained in the Universal Considerations Declaration on Human Rights; Support and promote the realisation of human rights wherever appropriate within BirdLife is fully aware that the concept of indigenous peoples is controversial and that some. [...] Similarly, the Constitution of the Republic of Seychelles contains Article 38 on the right to a safe environment, whereby “The state recognises the right of every person to live in and enjoy a clean, healthy ii The 1988 Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, and ecologically balanced environment and with a view to ensuring the effective realisation. [...] everyone shall have the right to live in a healthy environment and to have access to basic public and management of the resources of Seychelles; (c) to promote public awareness of the need to protect, services; preserve and improve the environment”.