This paper makes a case for advancing women’s tenure rights and how international law can be used to promote those rights in the context of REDD+. It is intended for women’s rights advocates involved in climate change and REDD+, and thus presumes a general familiarity with REDD+. International human rights law is presented as an additional framework for advocates to use in their strategies and messages to advance women’s tenure rights in REDD+.
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Using International Law to Advance Women’s Tenure Rights in REDD+
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- 2015
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- Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Citation:
- Silverman, A. (2015). Using International Law to Advance Women’s Tenure Rights in REDD+. Niranjali, A. (Ed.). Washington, DC: Rights and Resources Initiative and Center for International Environmental Law
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Accessing and Controlling Natural Resources, Climate Action, Climate Change, Documents and resources, English, External, Forests, Gender Equality, Global, Land and Resource Rights, Life Below Water, Life on Land, Mitigation, No Poverty, REDD+, Reduced Inequality, Report, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Tenure Rights, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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