The Sound of Falling Trees: Integrating Environmental Justice Principles into the Climate Change Framework for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)

Charitable giving is of great value to society. In particular, wealthy individuals and their families have the ability to make a significant impact on society. Many research papers and wealth briefings try to understand the multi-billion dollar global charitable giving market. These studies have provided valuable insights, but often miss the viewpoint of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs). Our comparative research provides a unique perspective on wealthy individuals in France and in the Netherlands. It is the first research to use the same methods in two different countries, which allows us to make solid comparisons. We asked 961 High Net Worth Individuals about their charitable giving behaviour and their knowledge of and interest in impact investing. What causes do our clients value most? How much do they give annually? And how does charitable giving relate to impact investing for the clients? Does the financial return or social return drive individuals to invest with impact? Please join us in this study to explore charitable giving from the giver’s perspective

Addressing climate vulnerability : promoting the participatory rights of indigenous peoples and women through Finnish foreign policy

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International law and resource extraction : the reconstruction of indigenous identity in Cajamarca, Peru

Why has there been a sudden upsurge in the politicization of indigenous identities in Latin America? Drawing upon constructivist assumptions of ethnic identity, I find that ILO 169 and the rights contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have been accompanied by a re-construction of indigenous identity in Cajamarca, Peru. Communities that are vulnerable to the deleterious effects of natural resource extraction and have historically identified as non-indigenous, despite having an indigenous identity in their identity repertoire, have re-constructed their indigenous identity as part of a strategy to maintain tenure over traditional lands, but only after the fact that power and rights have been awarded to these communities by international bodies of law and national legal frameworks alike. That is, bodies of law can activate an indigenous cleavage under a condition of grievance.Governmen

'Indigenous Rights at the United Nations: Their impact on international human rights standards'

This paper goes beyond the obvious impact that the Declaration has had on the rights of indigenous peoples and argues in favour of its wider impact on the standards of international human rights law. It sets out to prove that potentially, the recognition of indigenous rights in UNDRIP can make a substantial difference to other groups, as it pushes forward the standards of current international law. In order to highlight the ‘added value’ of the Declaration, the paper juxtaposes such contribution with respect to the previous contours of international law in five areas of human rights: the right to self-determination, collective rights, cultural rights, land rights and participation and consultation rights

Evolution and Complementarity? Traditional and Complementary Medicine as Part of the International Human Rights Law Right to Health

In International Human Rights Law, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights defines the right to health as the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Millions of people use traditional and complementary medicine (‘T&CM’) to realise their right to health. This article analyses whether the scope of the right to health includes T&CM. Although not expressly provided for in the legally binding treaties, there is substantial evidence in international law to infer a right to T&CM as part of the right to health. The article analyses some of the failings of T&CM policy and regulation in Australia and offers a draft convention article in the recently proposed Framework Convention on Global Health (‘FCGH’) which codifies an express and legally binding right to T&CM. This would assist States Parties address the policy, legislative and regulatory gaps that currently exist regarding T&CM. A clear duty imposed on States Parties would ensure everyone including indigenous peoples have access to quality, safe, culturally appropriate, and effective T&CM health care facilities, goods and services. States Parties including the Australian Government might then more effectively harness the potential contribution of T&CM, and fundamentally reorientate health systems towards significantly more cost-effective wellness and people centred health care in realising the right to health for all

Rapid Response Grantmaking: A Tool for Grantmakers

This paper offers insights from the perspective of the Connect U.S. Fund's administering staff and our collective experience designing and running a Rapid Response grantmaking program. There are numerous models of rapid response programs operating in the philanthropic world, such as grassroots "kickstarter" campaigns, grants to individuals in emergency situations, individual staff- or trustee-administered rapid response funds, and funds that address unexpected "marginal" costs (i.e., unanticipated travel or marketing). The field of rapid response funding does not have a consistent or thoroughly researched body of knowledge behind it. A broader, deeper, and more rigorous review and analysis of the various structures and methods of the effectiveness of these rapid response programs -- and the Connect U.S. Fund's own rapid response model -- would greatly benefit both the philanthropic and non-governmental communities. We hope this paper will help spur interested funders to take up that task

Relentless Assimilationist Indigenous Policy: From Invasion of Group Rights to Genocide in Mercy’s Clothing

Despite the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, assimilationist policies continue, whether official or effective. Such policies affect more than the right to group choice. The concern is whether indeed genocide or “only” ethnocide (or culturecide)—the elimination of a traditional culture—is at work. Discussions of the distinction between the two terms have been inconsistent enough that at least one commentator has declared that they cannot be used in analytical contexts. While these terms, I contend, have distinct senses, yet in cases of governmental and other institutional assimilationist policy for indigenous peoples, such ethnocide effectively entails genocide. Insofar as any people’s cultural practices and beliefs are essential for life and health, individuals in groups value, if tacitly, their culture as highly as their language or any artifact: Thus, attempts to eradicate a culture through assimilation in fact eradicate individuals’ lives and health and so are effectively murderous. Acknowledgement by worldwide organizations that assimilationist ethnocide is effectively genocide should affect policy concerning indigenous peoples and thus has significance for international law

Inspiration for children’s human rights from indigenous peoples’ rights

Although there are many and obvious differences between children and indigenous peoples, there are also quite some similarities, especially in how international human rights law and academic research have addressed the claims of these groups. This chapter focuses on three domains in which children’s rights and indigenous peoples’ rights share certain challenges, in order to explore whether and how both branches of human rights law could inspire each other: (i) the demarcation of the personal scope of rights, and the divisions and dichotomies generated by the establishment of categorical human rights; (ii) the way in which indigenous peoples and children have been constructed, especially from a Western perspective, and the consequences thereof; and (iii) participation and consent. I will argue that children’s rights law could draw inspiration from indigenous peoples’ rights law in defining its rights holders, in developing the collective dimension of the right to be heard and in conceptualising the right of children to give consent. On the other hand, an area in which research and practice on both indigenous peoples’ rights and children’s rights should increase efforts, concerns addressing the adverse consequences of idealised constructions