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Brazil creates a register for intangible cultural heritage
đź“… 4 August 2000Decree 3,551 established federal registers for forms of expression, ways of doing, places, and celebrations considered Brazilian intangible heritage, alongside a national program for safeguarding...
Decree 3,912 narrows the rules for quilombola land recognition
📅 10 September 2001Decree 3,912 set federal procedures for recognition and titling and tied eligibility to occupation on 5 October 1988, the date of the Constitution’s promulgation. This restrictive time test narrowed...
Decree 4,883 transfers quilombola land regularization to agrarian authorities
đź“… 20 November 2003Decree 4,883 transferred federal responsibility for delimiting quilombola lands from the Ministry of Culture to the Ministry of Agrarian Development. The change placed the process within a land and...
France creates a legal route for returning human remains from public collections
📅 26 December 2023Law 2023-1251 created a process for removing identified human remains originating in a foreign state from France’s public collections so they can be returned to that state for funerary purposes. It...
France issues rules for its human-remains restitution process
đź“… 28 June 2024A decree established implementing rules for the 2023 law on returning human remains from public collections, including how requests and advisory review are handled. The decree makes the new legal...