KNU land policy (English Version)

Article 2.3 Rights and responsibilities
2.3.1 KNU Authorities must ensure that all its actions regarding tenure
and its governance are consistent with international human rights
law.
2.3.2 All parties must recognize that no tenure right is absolute. All
tenure rights are limited by the human rights and occupation and
use rights of others and by the measures taken by KNU
Authorities necessary for public purposes. Such measures must
be determined democratically and by law, solely for the purpose
of promoting general welfare and consistent with international
human rights obligations. Tenure rights are also balanced by
duties, including the long-term protection and sustainable use
of land, forests, fisheries, water and related natural resources.
2.3.3 KNU Authorities must provide legal recognition for sociallylegitimate
tenure rights, including customary occupation, use
and related practices not currently protected by written law. KNU
Authorities must define through widely publicized rules the
categories of rights that are considered legitimate, with special
emphasis on socially-legitimate occupation, use and related
practices, and provide all persons, including those who against
their will, have been alienated from their homelands and deprived
of their customary occupation and use rights as a result of past
and current conflict, with a degree of tenure security which
guarantees equal legal protection against arbitrary evictions,
forced evictions, and harassment and other threats, and ensures
that their legitimate tenure rights are fully realized and restored
and not otherwise extinguished or infringed.
2.3.4 KNU Authorities must remove and prohibit all forms of
discrimination related to tenure rights, including those resulting
from change of marital status, lack of legal capacity, and lack
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