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During the month of July, we added the following legal updates from Chile, Costa Rica, and Ghana, to the library:
Chile
- Civil Marriage Law [ESP]
- DFL No. 5 [ESP]
- Law 19233 (amends DFL No. 5) [ESP]
- Law Establishing Rules on Protection, Promotion and Development of the Indigenous, and Creating the National Indigenous Development Corporation (Law No. 19253) [ESP]
- Regulation on the Organization and Operation of a Public Registry of Indigenous Lands (Decree 150) [ESP]
- Approval of Final Text of the Forest Law (Decree 4363) [ESP]
- Establishment of the Legal Regime of Forest Lands or Preferably Suitable for Afforestation, and Establishment Promotion Rules of That Matter (DL 701) [ESP]
- Law on the Recovery of Native Forests and Forest Promotion (Law No. 20283) [ESP]
Costa Rica
- Law to Promote Women’s Social Equality (Law No. 7142) [ESP]
- Law of the National Institute of Women (Law No. 7801) [ESP]
- Indigenous Law (Law No. 6172) [ESP]
- General Mechanism for Constitutions with Indigenous Peoples Decree (Decree No. 40932-MP-MJP) [ESP]
- Forestry Law (Law No. 7575) [ESP]
- Forestry Regulation (Decree No. 25721) [ESP]
- Agrarian Reform Law (Law No. 2825) [ESP]
- National Parks Service Law (Law No. 6084) [ESP]
- Biodiversity Law (Law No. 7788) [ENG] [ESP]
- Wildlife Conservation Law (Law No. 7317) [ESP]
- Registration System of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to certify the condition of small and medium agricultural producers (Decree No. 37911-MAG) [ESP]
- Regulation for the Execution of the National REDD+ Strategy (Executive Decree 40464-MINAE) [ESP]
- General Law on Vacant Land (Law No. 13) [ESP]
Ghana
- National Gender Policy [ENG]
- Wildlife Resources Management Bill [ENG]
- Forest and Wildlife Policy [ENG]
- Land Act (Act 1036) [ENG]
- Timber Resource Management Act (Act 547) [ENG]
- Timber Resource Management (Amendment) Act (Act 617) [ENG]
- Manuals of Procedure for Forest Resource Management Planning in the High Forest Zone of Ghana [ENG]
- Forestry Commission Act (Act No. 405) [ENG]
- Forestry Commission Act (Act No. 571) [ENG]
- Gender and Development Strategy [ENG]
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