• Contact: Nathalie van Haren
  • Address: Nobelstraat 4 NL-3512 EN, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Phone: +31 85 06 05 058
  • Email: info@bothends.org
  • Web: www.bothends.org/en/
  • Members:
    BOTH ENDS

BOTH ENDS

BOTH ENDS

Member since: 2018

Working towards these commitments

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Mission

BOTH ENDS strengthens global civil society in order to gain decisive influence on the use of nature and the environment, thus contributing to the ideal that societies staying within our planetary boundaries respect all human rights, including the rights to water, food and a safe living environment.

Objectives

BOTH ENDS´ objectives are to strengthen global civil society in order to gain decisive influence on the use of nature and the environment, thus contributing to societies that stay within our planetary boundaries and respect all human rights, including the rights to water, food and a safe living environment.

Constituencies

Since 1986, BOTH ENDS has supported many hundreds of environmental organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and in countries in Central and Eastern Europe. It has offered help in fundraising, in creating networks in and outside the Netherlands and in collecting relevant information. The organisation also brought issues of groups of people in developing countries to the attention of policymakers and the corporate world on a local, national and international level.

  • Contact: Nathalie van Haren
  • Address: Nobelstraat 4 NL-3512 EN, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Phone: +31 85 06 05 058
  • Email: info@bothends.org
  • Web: www.bothends.org/en/
  • Members:
    BOTH ENDS