C. Customary law

The second main approach involves Ethnobotany, the study of the general use of plants in society, and ethnopharmacology, an area inside ethnobotany, which is focused specifically on medicinal uses.

Human Rights and Customary Law

(b) Customary international law

Regulatory action

Action 2

Actions

There is also the question of the relation of such instruments to the principles of customary law.

General procedure

In accordance with the customary law, marriage is used as a means to structure reproduction and land possession.

Project to examine indigenous customary law in Morocco

Moreover, customary law denies justice to women.

In Afghanistan, there are three principal legal references constitutional law, the Koran, and the system of customary law known asFarhang, the most dominant and strictest version of which is calledPashtunwali (the way of the Pashtuns).

User requested interrupt.

This report provides me, as Chief Administrative Officer of the Organization, a good overview of the major activities undertaken by the Office during the reporting period.

Action taken by the Conference

Action by the Conference

The Council shall take appropriate action.

Action taken by the Forum

Action taken by the Forum

Proposed action

The measures are ongoing.

Comments by the Islamic Republic of Iran

It had before it the following documents

Methods of work of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development

See Council resolution 2005 29.

Under agenda item 14 as a whole, the Council had before it the following documents

Recommendations contained in the report of the Commission on the Status of Women

Declaration of the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women

At the same meeting, the Council adopted the draft resolution.

Recommendations contained in the report of the Commission for Social Development on its forty third session

See Council decision 2005 235.

See Council decision 2005 246 and paragraphs 219 to 224 below.

(b) Summary of the report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2004 (E INCB 2004 1).

See Council decision 2005 261. The voting was as follows

Abstaining

In favour

At its 17th meeting, on 6 July 2005, the Council

(l) Women and development

African Development Bank (General Assembly resolution 42 10)

Asian and Pacific Development Centre (Council decision 2000 213)

African Cultural Institute (Council decision 1987 161)

The chiefs argued that customary law give them the right to make a woman return to her husband.

The procedure takes about two hours.

C. Action taken by the Commission