CIEL Law & Communities Resources

Law & Communities Program

For more information about CIEL's Law and Communities Program, contact Kristen Genovese.

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For information on community-based property rights around the globe, please visit our database in progress.

The Law and Communities Program works with a range of regional partners to accomplish our mission:

Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE), Uganda (http://www.acode-u.org)
Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement, Cameroon (http://www.cedcameroun.org)
Centro Terra Viva, Mozambique (ctv@tvcabo.co.mz)
Environmental Law Foundation of Nigeria (ELFON), Nigeria (larryogb@hotmail.com)
Greenwigs Limited, Malawi (m&clegal@malawi.net)
Institute for Law and Environmental Governance, Kenya (makoloo@yahoo.com)
Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT), Tanzania (http://www.leat.or.tz)
Legal Resources Centre, South Africa (http://www.lrc.co.za)
Zimbabwean Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Zimbabwe (zela@mweb.co.zw)

Association for Community and Ecological-Based Legal Reform (psdhm@indo.net.id)
Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL), Indonesia (http://www.icel.or.id)
Institut Hukum Sumberdaya Alam (IHSA), Natural Resources Law Institute (http://www.ihsa.or.id)

Environment Legal Assistance Center (ELAC), Philippines (http://www.elac.org.ph)
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC), Philippines (http://www.lrcksk.org)
Paglilingkod Batas Pangkapapatiran Foundation (pbpf@dvo.info.com.ph)
Tanggol Kalikasan, Philippines (http://www.tanggol.org)

Earthrights International (http://www.earthrights.org)
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (http://www.elaw.org)
Friends of the Earth (http://www.foe.org)
Forest Trends (http://www.forest-trends.org)
Global Exchange (http://www.globalexchange.org)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (http://heiwww.unige.ch/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html)
International Association for the Study of Common Property (http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/)
International Court of Justice (http://www.icj-cij.org)
Rainforest Action Network (http://www.ran.org)
World Resources Institute (http://www.wri.org)
World Wildlife Fund (http://www.panda.org)
United Nations Human Rights Commission (http://www.unhcr.ch/hchr_un.htm)

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