Sentences with phrase «rights land issues»

The Australian Government released Carbon Farming Initiative Consultation Paper — Enabling Indigenous participation: native title and land rights land issues.

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If the issue is indeed finding the right fit, a job candidate would have an easier time landing at the right company if startups willingly shared such information.

Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

The Committee was so concerned about issues of violence against Indigenous women and the violation of Indigenous Peoples» land rights that it called on Canada to report back within one year on progress made to implement its recommendations on these issues.

Other new questions about environmental issues include large - scale land acquisitions in the supply chains of food companies and related human rights problems.

I am sure being off by a few degrees will not land them in major religious issues, after all in a faith based system, the faith and belief you are following the doctrine is all that is needed right?

Even in our own country, proud of its long heritage as the cradle of liberty and the land of the free, the issue of freedom, whether in the field of civil rights or of economic opportunity, is still the most fundamental problem of our time.

Although there's plenty of room for differing opinions in the Christian faith, this film is one more piece of evidence that wherever you land, believers can no longer sit on the sidelines when it comes to issues of race, civil rights and how we interpret our past.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

We're addressing the vital issue of property rights, supporting the land reform that can unlock economic growth and empower women by enabling them to borrow.

The issue is far from simple as some of these land rights are legacies of traditional ownership patterns.

You're failing to consider the the confiscation of arable lands, the illegal outposts, as well as the issue of water rights.

«I object to the complete evisceration of all legal issues we have won throughout the years in the courts,» said Judy Bachman, president of Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, which is suing the federal government over Oneida nation trust land.

That rapid rate of consciousness - raising about the issue is largely attributable to a Pennsylvanian who, seven years ago, got curious enough to grab a camera and do some low - budget independent research when a gas company offered his family $ 100,000 for the right to drill under their land.

It would designate any mineral leases issued within the boundaries of the National Forest System lands in Minnesota as indeterminate preference right leases.

Critics attacked Basildon council's approach to the issue this morning, saying the local authority allowed private firms planning rights to develop greenfield land, but took a much harsher stance when dealing with the traveller community.

Due to tribal sovereignty rights, land issues create an obstacle for financing on territory.

A town code provision says the town board must sign off on permits for structures on land where the town has purchased development rights, such as the Babinski farm, although planning board approval has already been issued.

The project will use well - tested and nationally adopted participatory land - use planning and forest management processes which can help resolve land use issues, clarify land tenure and resource use rights, and ensure greater consultation, fairness and consistency in land allocation and forest regulation and management.

The palm oil industry in SE Asia is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses in the SE Asia, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations.

For all the ways in which the subject matter apparently touches on very public issues (the economy of the land, LGBT rights, post-Brexit attitudes), in essence the film is absolutely intimate and personal, shaped by marvellously believable performances and ultimately achieving a heart - rending authenticity.

I hope that our work today will help them when considering the issues involved in land rights» claims, and how the two sides could negotiate the issue.

Abstract: I recently returned from an international solidarity mission to Cambodia, where so many of the issues that progressive rights - based civil society origanisations campaign on slap you right in the face: Land grabs: -LSB-...]

They also use evidence from articles covering land rights issues in Ethiopia, Indonesia and Myanmar to debate how a country's natural resources should be used.

These lessons present close reading, writing, discussion and hands - on activities that explore reporting on climate change, land rights debates and water issues.

In these linked stories, she tackles - among other issues - poverty, political oppression, corruption, violence, women's rights, the class systems of Zimbabwe and the United States, and the problems of alienation at home and in a foreign land.

Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack of land rights and social oppression.

It uses tree planting as an entry point for communities to take action on issues of land rights, environment and livelihoods.

a current shotgun or firearm certificate issued to the owner of the dog, or to the agent or employee of the owner most likely to be using the dog for work in connection with the lawful shooting of animals OR a letter from a gamekeeper, a land occupier (or his agent), a person with shooting rights, a shoot organiser, a club official, a person representing the National Working Terrier Federation, or a person engaged in lawful pest control, stating that the breeder of the dog whose tail is to be docked is known to him and that dogs bred by that breeder have been used (as the case may be) on his land, or in his shoot, or for pest control.

As the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unequal ways, concerns such as human rights have become increasingly tied to issues involving air, water and land.

Yu Gao, the China director for Landesa, a group working on land tenure issues, focused on the lack of what he called «social infrastructure» in China — mechanisms to protect the rights of those on the move in the country's great urban migration.

I remember the issue of deciding how many principle components to use in my thesis work involving automated land use classification based on remote sensing, and it is clear that using too many PCs will begin to NOT explain the variability, while using the RIGHT number gets us the best answer.

Recognizing the Q'eqchi's collective property rights, the court ordered the government to replace the missing pages from the registry and issue land titles to the people of Agua Caliente.

Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.

REDD is a complicated and contentious issue, but this much is clear: any approach to reducing deforestation must be based in human rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, land tenure reform, and territorial sovereignty.

Therefore the development of policy mechanisms like REDD will involve thorny issues like traditional land rights as well as broader questions on how compensation will be structured and what measures will effectively conserve forests without driving more people into poverty.

Social issues that commonly occur when natural vegetation is replaced with commercially managed crops may also arise as a result of changes in property and land - use rights.

Abibimman Foundation a Non-Profit Oriented, Non-Partisan, Non-Governmental Organisation (RGD G5, 895, DSW 2525), established in 2000 and dedicated to the promotion of sustainable Livelihoods, ameliorate conflict situations and a culture of peace, Climate Change, environmental, Land Degradation, Agriculture, Biodiversity, democracy and development based on knowledge of cultural, civic, human right, environmental and health issues.

The United Nations says land rights conflicts have become Cambodia's No. 1 human rights issue.

At the same time Chinese citizens are increasingly rights - conscious and challenging the authorities over livelihood issues, land seizures, forced evictions, abuses of power by corrupt cadres, discrimination, and economic inequalities.

The purpose of the walking home, apart from shameless self promotion, is to draw attention to the issue of land rights in the sense of,» here is my walking home, but where can i park it?»

He also advised on the rights issues and placings and open offers by Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS, Bradford & Bingley, Centrica, British Land, Land Securities, Punch Taverns, Redrow, Yell and National Express, as well as numerous undocumented secondary offerings.

The Indian Act is not the only legislation specific to aboriginal people — the First Nations Land Management Act (SC 1999) provides a framework for First Nations to develop regimes for resource development, succession, and other important issues; the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (SC 2005) prescribes certain reporting requirements with respect to real property taxation; and the recently passed Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act (SC 2013) seeks to provide protections to parties living on reserves in the context of family breakdown.

[1] The issue in this case is whether the British Columbia Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations («Minister») erred in approving a ski resort development, despite claims by the Ktunaxa that the development would breach their constitutional right to freedom of religion and to protection... [more]

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!

Property issues and disputes of all types, including: contracts for the acquisition, development and management of land; options and conditional contracts; overage claims; project management and similar contracts; mortgages and other security arrangements, including enforcement disputes; planning and other statutory issues connected with property contracts; leases of all types; landlord and tenant disputes (particularly commercial — including retail, leisure and distribution — and residential); rent reviews; leasehold enfranchisement; rights over land (including easements, covenants and rights of light); trespass and nuisance claims; disputed asset disposals; estate agency; property - related competition law issues; and commons and village greens.

His experience includes handling business disputes, commercial leases, zoning, land use and administrative matters, title issues, constitutional and statutory property rights, contract disputes, appeals, tax deeds, and ad valorem tax disputes involving property assessments.

Lawyers advising First Nations on these issues should have a strong background in employment law principles and human rights, particularly since the Canadian Human Rights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreerights, particularly since the Canadian Human Rights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreeRights Code applies to all aspects of Indian band governance, including governance structures under modern land claims agreements.

Lorraine Land, «Issues and Concerns Which Should Be Addressed in the Impact Assessment of the Unocal Sour Gas Plant», November 1994, A Submission to the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board on behalf of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (Edmonton).

However, given that this issue remains to be examined by the Supreme Court or the Grand Chamber it is unlikely that defendants will stop raising human rights as a defence to possession claims in courts across the land.