GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT
should be assumed by the State according to the ILO Convention and the Constitution
and what occurs in practice, which implies an institutionalism that does little to
guarantee the rights of Indigenous Peoples, constituting an institutional neglect of
them.29
This situation, which can also be observed in other countries, represents one of the
greatest obstacles to the complete fulfilment of the State's duty to consult Indigenous
Peoples.
29 Castillo, Yadira. El rol de la empresa transnacional extractiva de petróleo en la consulta previa con los indígenas.
La experiencia de Colombia. Revista de Derecho. Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, 2012. (in Spanish)
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