Hence the Congress government is toying with proposals for a new Tribal Bill that would give land rights to forest dwellers.

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Even reluctant Indonesia has nodded acknowledgment to the rights of 50m forest dwellers.

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The London-listed miner is accused of violating forest-protection laws and the rights of tribal groups, but has said it will not abandon the project, which was expected to yield 78m tonnes of the aluminium-bearing ore.

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Where forest ownership is contested, because local rights are vague or there are competing title deeds, for example, that becomes more difficult.

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Attaching rights to carbon in standing forest, while easier to define, will run into similar problems in places where ownership of forestland and forest services are weak and ill-defined.

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Ms Spelman said it was under Labour that public forest estate was sold without any guarantee that public access rights would be protected.

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Another kind of sweepstakes took place in the NBA in 1997: the draft lottery for the rights to pick the consensus best player in the country, Wake Forest center Tim Duncan.

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Forest Laboratories (nyse: FRX - news - people ) has U.S. rights to the drug.

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