CIHR Scoping Meeting on Key Issues
2-3 November 2010 (Washington DC, USA, and Cambridge, UK)
The Conservation Initiative on Human Rights hosted a scoping meeting, in order to build common understandings on key issues at the intersection of conservation and human rights and identify proposed areas of focus for future work. Participants discussed appropriate standards or best practices for addressing key issues in conservation contexts; practical opportunities and challenges for action; and suggestions for further learning and more in-depth work. A presentation on key issues at the intersection of conservation and human rights and subsequent discussion addressed several issues of relevance to TK and indigenous peoples, including: participation in decision-making; free, prior, informed consent; customary land and resource tenure; biocultural diversity; sustainable use and equitable benefit-sharing; and displacement and restrictions on resource access. Read the IUCN release on the meeting … Download the report of the meeting [pdf] …
