Specifically, the Forestry Act (1991) recognizes customary landowner rights to ownership of land and forest produce and rights to use of the land.

Another, third, category of forest areas remains unaffected by the application of the Act.

The guidelines for national forest plans include recognition and respect for customary and traditional rights of, inter alia, indigenous people, local communities, forest dwellers and forest owners.

Land and resource rights and recognition of traditional forest related knowledge

Land and resource rights and recognition of traditional forest related knowledge

With regard to community land and forest rights, forest management should be devolved to community control community land and forest ownership should be legalized criteria and indicators for certification should be strengthened and markets should be designed that recognize local rights.

Respecting human rights and protecting vulnerable forest dependent people are important elements of sustainable forest management and the creation of an enabling environment for poverty alleviation.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

A provision was under consideration to give the Canadian Human Rights Act precedence over any other act.

Even this basic level of subsistence is threatened where tenure rights are insecure often forest laws deny or limit the right to use wood and non timber forest products, or rights of access and residence are denied.

The Human Rights Act must inevitably yield to subsequent legislation.

Nunavut passed its Human Rights Act on November 4, 2003.

Forest

Forest

Forest Resources in the Tropical World (forest areas)

The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates the great majority of Convention rights directly into UK law.

The Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on source of income .

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

In many countries, Governments have already recognized ancestral domain claims and the legitimate rights of forest dependent people, and have strengthened community forest tenure or created new opportunities for community management.

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Forest area

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Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

Indeed, even when the cause of human rights is being advanced, the Human Rights Act is now overlooked.

The Forum is uniquely positioned to further advance the framework of sustainable forest management and to act as a key political voice on forests.

Overall, traditional forest related knowledge in forest management is not recognized on an equal footing with scientific forest knowledge.

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

For instance, in the United States the civil rights movement culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 can be seen as further realization of events such as the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery a century earlier.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

(b) The entry into force in 2000 of the Human Rights Act 1998

Employers also have to inform employees of the rights ensured by the Act.

The Succession Act gave rights in the matrimonial home to a surviving spouse.

Sustainable forest management

Sustainable forest management

Total forest area

(h) Forest degradation

Forest cover 1990

D. Managed Forest

Canada's boreal forest.

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in Miedzyborze forest.

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

The owner of the forest also has a duty to take measures to reduce the possibility of the forest damage and restrict its distribution to monitor forest situation and to notify the State Forest Service of determined forest damage.

In February, former Union General and Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (Ku Klux Klan Act).

With fanfare and idealism reflected in the slogan Rights Brought Home the Human Rights Act came into effect in 2000.