Sentences with phrase «customary rights»

Additionally, the region has its own flag symbolising the unity and identity of all Torres Strait Islanders [5], and the area is subject to a bilateral treaty with Papua New Guinea which recognises and guarantees their traditional fishing rights and traditional customary rights.

According to empirical economic research, the results exposed high costs, few benefits and in Africa, where farming prospered, it appeared to do so within a framework of customary rights, kinship and social contracts.34

Research exposed high costs and few benefits, and in Africa where farming prospered, it appeared to do so within a framework of customary rights, kinship and social contracts.

The Indigenous peoples of the Archer, Lockhart and Stewart River Basins possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the rivers; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on and in the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and ceremony.

This perception has created distinction between customary rights and commercial rights.

These cultural and customary rights and responsibilities include:

The view that customary Indigenous laws and customs do not include commercial activity has created a false dichotomy that customary rights are mutually exclusive to commercial rights.6

When examining these cases, there appears to be a somewhat common, but perhaps ungrounded distinction between customary rights and commercial rights.

customary rights and commercial rights are two mutually exclusive concepts and therefore commercial rights are not considered to be traditional; and

One reason for a continuing dichotomy between customary rights and commercial rights could be the difficulty that Indigenous people have faced in proving that they were involved in commercial fishing prior to colonisation.

The Indigenous Nations of the Murray - Darling River Basin possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the Basin; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and ceremony.

(93) Core rights include «the right to assert a requirement to be asked for permission to access, use or alter the area by those who are not holders of core customary rights and interests».

Does his respect for Charter rights lead one to expect a corresponding right for statutory and customary rights?

The indigenous communities that have customary rights to the Arnavons have relied on their marine resources for millennium, fishing and hunting the surrounding tropical waters that provide food for their families.

We are strongly urging our government to reconsider its decision of turning Malaysia into a major agrofuel producing country, as it is leading to further destruction of our forests and violations of the customary rights of indigenous peoples.»

A big hug and the customary right - cheek kiss later, she excitedly told me, «I'm gonna make us a sweet corn tart!»

This balance has been achieved through the application of an innovative tool, the Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy (CCRO).

It became the basis for Certificates of Customary Right of Occupancy (CCRO), a creative approach to applying the Tanzanian Village Land Act.

Certificates of Customary Right of Occupancy (CCROs) allow entire communities of Maasai to secure indivisible rights over their customary lands and manage those territories through bylaws and management plans.

The most important step was establishing Communal Customary Right of Occupancy (CCRO) for the Hadza — essentially legal title to the land where they live.

Not exact matches

(As an academic himself, Tyerman is careful not to neglect the customary jab at the political right.)

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

One political position customary among Jews, and often shared also among the more observant, is that of not interfering in the choices of freedom that the state makes for its citizens, reserving only to the individual conscience the right and duty of making rigorous personals choices on arguments in which the law of the state makes room for autonomy and freedom.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

It follows that the discoverers would need financial resources to go to the right far - off places, and these would be more likely» to be available in an advanced country in which world - wide ventures were customary.

Anika Rahman, Director of the International Program for CRLP, claimed, in a letter to the Washington Times (August 31, 2001), that «our lawsuit does not assert that the right to abortion is a principle of international customary law.»

It takes exceptional legal training, to say the least, to explain any distinction between a «customary international law» and an «internationally recognized human right.»

Only moral convictions about right and wrong ensconced in manners and customary restraints can ensure a healthy culture of relations between the sexes.

CENDI sees that the proliferation of GM crops and poisonous pesticides will affect the health and environment, the farmers» rights to seeds and the customary traditions of the indigenous ethnic minorities.

It wouldn't be customary to start a New Year without sharing a green smoothie right?

IOI will retain a 30 % ownership stake and customary protective rights upon completion of the transaction.

For me and everyone else it was customary, and by that I mean essential, that the greens be cast right into the rice bowl and mixed in with chopsticks.

The most important thing for Arsenal right now is to get a result at Aston Villa, and hope Chelsea get their customary one point per game against Leicester.

Soon confronted by an wall of aqua, he twitches the ball right in customary fashion, seeking out Nicklas Bendtner, the only red shirt with courage enough to ask for the ball at this tense moment.

Ultimately, the drive towards Magna Carta was less defined by the pursuit of universal rights and liberties, than by a united desire to redress grievances and safeguard customary privileges with a secure and binding settlement.

The argument that there is a right of humanitarian intervention is usually put as an argument that a rule of customary international law has developed since the UN Charter.

He began, as is customary, by giving a whistle - stop tour of his constituency which, he noted, he conducted himself during his three years as parliamentary candidate by bike - «following the instruction of the former Member for Chingford (Lord Tebbit), and more recently the example of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister — perhaps the only time that they have agreed».

Hardberger demonstrates the need to establish water as a human right and thereby raise the right to water to the status of customary law.

As with customary law, Qadis (Sharia legal judges) are male and the same concerns exist regarding the rights of women in such a context;

As Gundel notes, «the xeer [customary law] is efficient for the regulation of inter-clan affairs» but a drawback among individuals as such people «may not have the same rights and protection, because xeer is linked to clans and their area» (Ibid).

r [customary law] is efficient for the regulation of inter-clan affairs» but a drawback among individuals as such people «may not have the same rights and protection, because

Sharia law has co-existed with Somali customary law throughout Somalia's history and in comparison to customary law, it is protective when it comes to women's rights.

To the right and left of the customary Porsche analogue rev counter — with classic needle design — are two high - resolution display screens that visualise virtual instruments, maps and other information as required.

To the right and left of the customary Porsche analogue tachometer — with classic needle design — are two high - resolution display screens that visualize virtual instruments, maps and other information as required.

The two exhaust gas ducts feed into a single muffler from which the customary M twin tailpipes extend out through the far left and right - hand sides of the rear apron.

So it was an easy decision for the clients to participate and benefit: Trident would only charge its customary commission based on revenues received by the authors, and Trident would not become an e-book publisher, profiting at the client's expense, being a rights holder, and finding itself potentially in an adversarial position with authors.

Buying back on more local soil, I visited our big bookstore Chapters as the customary before - and - after seeing a movie ritual (aka, it's right next door to the biggest theatre).

The tender offer will be conditioned on the following: (i) BVF's nominees being elected to the board of directors of Avigen (the «Board») at the Special Meeting (or otherwise appointed) and constituting a majority of directors on the Board, (ii) the Board redeeming rights issued under Avigen's poison pill, (iii) Avigen not committing to any strategic transactions or capital - depleting actions, pursuant to the process described by Avigen on January 14, 2009 (or otherwise), and (iv) other customary conditions such as the absence of a suspension in trading or any material adverse change at Avigen.

The credit union reserves the right to determine if transactions processed under the 10 cents cash back program are usual and customary and to restrict privileges / accrued rewards.

There's the customary selection of homing missiles, bouncing lasers, and napalm shells which grow in potency as players get close to foes - all directed by the direction of the right thumbstick.