Our LandWise legal library represents the most comprehensive collection of laws and legal materials related to women’s land and resource rights.
During the month of September, we added new and updated laws and resources sourced from Nepal, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.
Nepal
- Forests Act (No. 2076), 2019 [ENG]
- National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1973 [ENG]
- National Women’s Commission Act (No. 2074), 2018 [NEP]
- Nepal National Civil (Code) Act, 2017 [ENG]
Nicaragua
- Agricultural Cooperative Law (Law No. 826), 1981 [ESP]
- Atlantic Coast Regions Autonomy Statute Law (Law No. 28), 1987 [ESP]
- Communal Property Regime Law of the Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Communities of the Autonomous Regions of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and the Bocay, Coco, Indio, and Maíz Rivers (Law No. 445), 2002 [ESP]
- General Law of the Environment and Natural Resources (Law No. 217), 1996 [ESP]
- Law of Conservation, Fomentation and Sustainable Development of the Forestry Sector (Law No. 462), 2003 [ESP]
- Law of Equality of Rights and Opportunities (Law No. 648), 2008 [ESP]
- Law of Municipalities with Reforms (Law No. 40), 2013 [ESP]
- Law on Reformed Urban and Agrarian Properties (Law No. 278), 1997 [ESP]
- Law of Regulation, Ordering, and Titling of Spontaneous Human Settlements (Law No. 309), 1999 [ESP]
- National Climate Change Action Plan 2010-2015, 2010 [ESP]
- National Policy for the Sustainable Development of the Forestry Sector (Decree No. 69-2008), 2008 [ESP]
- Nicaragua Agrarian Reform Law (Law No. 782), 1981 [ESP]
Vietnam
- Civil Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Law No. 91/2015/ QH13), 2015 [ENG] [VIE]
- Decision promulgating the regulation on forest management (No. 186/2006/QD-TTg), 2006 [ENG]
- Decree on Mechanism and Policy of Forest Development Associated with the Policy on Sustainable and Rapid Poverty Reduction and Assistance to Ethnic Minorities for the Period 2015-2020 (No. 75/2015/ ND-CP), 2015 [ENG]
- Decree on the Organization and Management of the Special-Use Forest System (No. 117/2010/ND-CP), 2010 [ENG] [VIE]
- Decree on the Policy on Payment for Forest Environment Services (No. 99/2010/ND-CP), 2010 [ENG]
- Directive on the Instructions of the Security Board on Enhancing the Party’s Leadership for Forest Management, Protection and Development (No. 13-CT/TW) [Directive 13], 2017 [ENG]
- Vietnam Law on Forestry, 2017 [ENG] [VIE]
- Vietnam Marriage and Family Law, 2014 [ENG]
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