Category: Customary Laws
-
One Tribe – One NGO for Legal and Socio-Cultural Affaris
Confederacy of Clans Foundation of the Tribe The Constitution of the Tribe stipules all things about the tribe, therefore, a Clans Confederacy Foundation and a Customary Business Entity are instituted and formally established in order to help protect members of the tribe legally, socially, culturally and economically. Whereas the Customary Business Entity is established to…
-
Culture: Codified Customary Laws
Culture: Codified Customary Laws Customary laws are codified, legalized and formalized Laws and Lores of Nature, as understood, lived and regarded useful by the clans. Codified Customary Laws become the Constitution for clans within the tribe to organise modern social, cultural and economic activities within modern modern-state legal framework.
-
Hello world! Hello Spirit! Hello People!
Welcome to WordPress. This is We ARE Melanesia! website, following the following slogan proposed by the Melanesian Spirit and Nature Inc. (henceforth mSN) based in Port Moresby, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. “SPIRIT is Here! NATURE is Here! HERE we are! . We humbly surrender to this truth and declare: WE…
-
New report shows Indigenous and Tribal Peoples ‘best guardians’ of forests
25 March 2021, Santiago, Chile/Rome – Deforestation rates are significantly lower in Indigenous and Tribal territories where governments have formally recognized collective land rights, according to a new report launched today. Jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin…
-
Diving Indigenous People Land Rights Significantly Reduces Deforestation, says UN Report
Land rights for Indigenous and Tribal groups help lower deforestation rates, reduce biodiversity loss and avoid CO2 emissions, according to a new UN report. In Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia, securing land rights has allowed communities to avoid the equivalent annual emissions of taking between 9 and 12.6 million cars off the road. In the run-up…
-
Indigenous peoples by far the best guardians of forests – UN report
The embattled indigenous peoples of Latin America are by far the best guardians of the regions’ forests, according to a UN report, with deforestation rates up to 50% lower in their territories than elsewhere. Protecting the vast forests is vital to tackling the climate crisis and plummeting populations of wildlife, and the report found that…
-
Indigenous peoples by far the best guardians of forests – UN report
Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Preserving Latin America’s forests is vital to fight the climate crisis and deforestation is lower in indigenous territories The embattled indigenous peoples of Latin America are by far the best guardians of the regions’ forests, according to a UN report, with deforestation rates up to 50% lower in their territories than…
-
Nature loss, climate breakdown, global pandemic — who now can save life on Earth?
Delfin Ganapin, WWF Governance Practice Leader, and Lin Li, WWF Global Policy and Advocacy Director, argue that securing the rights and recognising the roles and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are critical in creating a just, green, resilient future. Born of our destructive incursion upon nature, COVID-19 has shown us just how vulnerable we are…
-
The FCC Is Allowing 5G Towers on Indigenous Land Without Tribal Consent
By Sophie Stuber The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is approving the construction of 5G towers on what could be sacred Indigenous lands without tribal consent, VICE News has found. Muscogee (Creek) Nation works on projects in 12 states across the midwest and southern U.S., and is expected to inspect proposals for every 5G tower that goes…
-
The World’s Best Forest Guardians: Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous and local communities manage almost a quarter of the world’s lands—and that means they care for an astonishing 80 percent of Earth’s biodiversity. And no one stewards the land better: Research shows that Indigenous peoples achieve conservation results at least equal to those of government-run protected areas—with a fraction of the budget. Another study shows that…