Rights-based approaches: Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

Edited by Jessica Campese” Terry Sunderland” Thomas Greiber and Gonzalo Oviedo

A new publication examining the links between human rights protection” biodiversity and natural resource conservation was recently launched in Beijing” China on 12 July.  Rights-based approaches: Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation was jointly produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).  As a collection of diverse lessons and perspectives in understanding and addressing the links between conservation and human rights” it focuses on new challenges and questions to determine what rights-based approaches mean for conservation policy and its implementation.

Read the complete publication at: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/detail?pid

CIFOR/IUCN joint press release