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Indigenous Peoples and
Natural Resource Management |
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Convention
on Biological Diversity |
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Article 8(j): Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices |
| Article 8(j) states; "Each contracting
Party shall, as far as possible and as appropriate: Subject to
national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge,
innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities
embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and
sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider
application with the approval and involvement of the holders of
such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the
equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of
such knowledge innovations and practices" |
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Other international initiatives |
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Agenda 21 |
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Agenda 21: Principle 22
of the main document that came out of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
de Janeiro recognizes that indigenous peoples have a vital role to
play in environmental management and development because of their
traditional knowledge and practices; |
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Agenda 21:
Chapter 26
Recognizing and strengthening the role of Indigenous People and
their communities |
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Other international initiatives |
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Convention for Safeguarding of
the Intangible Cultural Heritage
The
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage defines the intangible cultural heritage as the
practices, representations, expressions, as well as the
knowledge and skills, that communities, groups and, in some
cases, individuals recognise as part of their cultural heritage.
It is sometimes called living cultural heritage, and is
manifested inter alia in the following domains: (i) oral
traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of
the intangible cultural heritage; (ii) performing arts;
(iii) social practices, rituals and festive events; (iv)
knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; (v)
traditional craftsmanship.
The intangible cultural heritage is transmitted from generation
to generation, and is constantly recreated by communities and
groups, in response to their environment, their interaction with
nature, and their historical conditions of existence. It
provides people with a sense of identity and continuity, and its
safeguarding promotes, sustains, and develops cultural diversity
and human creativity.
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Access to Genetic Resources and
Benefit-sharing - Bonn Guidelines
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United
Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples:
The Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations has
established an open-ended, inter-sessional working group to
elaborate a draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
Work
is in progress |
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The
Inter-American Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples: An Indigenous Peoples
and Community Development Unit has been established under this
Declaration and is currently drafting a strategy on indigenous
peoples. |
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The
Intergovernmental Committee on
Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge
and Folklore (established in November 2000) focuses on
three primary themes based on intellectual property issues that
arise in the context of: (i) access to genetic resources and
benefit-sharing; (ii) protection of traditional knowledge,
innovations and creativity, whether or not associated with those
resources; and (iii) the protection of expressions of folklore,
including handicrafts.
Work
in progress
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The
European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development is committed to ensuring that the development
process promotes indigenous peoples' participation. |
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The
Asian
Development Bank (ADB) approved the
Policy on Indigenous Peoples in 1998. This policy works to
ensure the equality of opportunity for indigenous peoples, and
that interventions affecting indigenous peoples are consistent
with the needs and aspirations of affected peoples compatible in
substance and structure with affected peoples' cultural, social,
and economic institutions conceived, planned, and implemented with
the informed participation of affected communities. |
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The
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank: Both organizations have
launched programmes to promote indigenous peoples' development and
to ensure that the development process fosters the full respect
for the dignity, human rights and uniqueness of indigenous
peoples.
World Bank
Draft Policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10) as of February
15, 2002 |
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