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Category: Legal issues
Project: ECOLEX
Organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), IUCN (World Conservation Union), and UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme)
Languages: English, Spanish, and French
Country/Region: Global
Summary: ECOLEX provides an impressively comprehensive, global source of online environmental law information. The site features search engines for information organized into 4 sections: treaties; national legislation; court decisions from major national and international cases; and related literature. Each section is searchable by subject, keyword, country, and/or date.
Organization: Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)
Languages: English, Spanish
Country/Region: Americas
Summary: AIDA is consortium of environmental law organizations that seek to protect human health and the environment by developing and enforcing environmental laws and mechanisms for citizen participation. Their Web site highlights proposed and defeated projects that would negatively impact biodiversity, indigenous peoples, critical ecosystems, and human rights in the Americas.
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