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Take Place on, or which are Likely to Impact on, Sacred Sites and on Lands and Waters Traditionally Occupied or Used by Indigenous
and Local Communities, para 15 available at www.cbd.int/doc/publications/akwe-brochure-pdf.
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights over their Ancestral Lands and Natural Resources. Norms and Jurisprudence of the InterAmerican Human Rights System. OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 56/09, 30 December 2009 para. 248; see also Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights Annual Report 2009 Chapter V ‘Access to Justice and Social Inclusion: The Road towards Strengthening Democracy in
Bolivia’ Doc. OEA/Ser/L/V/II.135 Doc. 40 (7 August 2009) para 157.
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, principle 18.
EMRIP A/HRC/18/42, (2011) para 22.
CERD/C/ECU/CO/0019/CRP.1 (2008) para 16.
Saramaka People v. Suriname Interpretation of the Judgment on Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of
12 August 2008. Series C No. 185, para 41.
ibid para 40.
ILO Convention 169 article 15; World Bank Operational Policy 4.10 Annex A para 2(e) refers to culturally appropriate benefits.
Saramaka People v. Suriname, Judgment of November 28, 2007 (Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs) Inter-Am. Ct.
H.R., (Ser. C) No. 172 (2007)paras 129-140.
UN Doc. A/HRC/EMRIP/2012/2 Annex para 39.
Final Statement Complaint From The Future in our Hands (Fioh) Against Intex Resources Asa and the Mindoro Nickel Project (OECD
NCP Oslo, 2011) at 7.
2009 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Experts Meeting on the extractive sector and indigenous peoples E/C.19/2009/CRP.8,
para 17; see also A/HRC/18/35 (2011) para 37.
ILO Convention 169 Article 7(1).
ICCPR and ICESCR common article 1(1); UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples article 3.
Report of the working group established in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32 UN Doc. E/CN.4/2003/92
(6 January 2003) paras. 44-9. See discussion in subsequent chapter.
CERD Concluding Observation to the Philippines UN Doc. CERD/C/PHL/CO/20 (23 September 2009).
Statement of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations, July 23-27, 2001
Agenda Item 4: Indigenous Peoples and Development at 4.
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework A/
HRC/17/31 21 March 2011 para 25.
UN Doc. E/C.19/2009/CRP. 8 4 May 2009 para 88, 102.
UN Doc. E/C.19/2009/CRP. 8 4 May 2009 para 88, 102.
Striking a Better Balance Volume I The World Bank Group and Extractive Industries The Final Report of the Extractive Industries Review
(December 2003) at 46.
UN Doc. A/HRC/18/35 para 38.
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples article 30.
Different terms are used to capture the notion of community formulated rules around FPIC processes. The terms, policy, protocol and
guidelines are among those frequently used. The term protocols has been generally used in this report, however indigenous peoples
may decide to call these by more culturally appropriate names.
A Resguardo Indigena is an indigenous peoples’ reserve.
Different Subanen communities use different spelling of their name. At Mt Canatuan it is spelt Subanon. The term Subanen is frequently
used by other communities and is used for the people as a whole in this case study.
Philippine Indigenous Peoples ICERD Shadow Report. Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination. 75th Session. August 2009 at 51-64 companies included TVIRD, Ferrum 168, GAMI and Frank Real Inc.
Philippine Indigenous Peoples ICERD Shadow Report. Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination. 75th Session. August 2009 at 79.
Philippines: TVIRDIAdmits Fault and Performs Cleansing Ritual In Canatuan. http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_
content&view=article&id=10629:philippines-tvirdi-admits-fault-and-performs-cleansing-ritual-in-canatuan&catid=32:southeast-asiaindigenous-peoples&Itemid=65.
Subanen Manifesto: The Free Prior and Informed Consent Process of the Subanen in Zamboanga Peninsula. (LRC-KSK. 2013).
Manifesto. Subanen Conference on Free Prior and Informed Consent. Nov. 22, 2009.
NCIP Memorandum No. 184, April 27, 2010.
For an overview of the case see D Peerla ‘No Means No The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Fight for Indigenous Resource
Sovereignty’ (Cognitariat Publishing, 2012).
New Alliance Declares Moratorium on Mining Exploration and Resource Development in the Far North: No Means No, text of resolution
available at http://kifirstnation.blogspot.fr/2008/04/chief-donny-morris-on-meaning-of-no-ca.html.
The KI Draft Consultation Protocol Between Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (“KI”) and Platinex Inc. (“Platinex”) and The
Ontario Crown (“Ontario”) including as represented by the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (“MNDM”) and the Minster of
Aboriginal Affairs.
Communication with John Cutfeet, responsible for the Lands and Environment portfolio under the KI Chief and Council at the time of the
Platinex injunction cases.
http://news.ontario.ca/mndmf/en/2009/12/correction-ontario-resolves-litigation-dispute-over-big-trout-lake-property.html.
Catherine Coumans Presentation to 11.11.11 Workshop. See also http://kilands.org/2011/10/29/huge-uncertainties-remain-withontario%E2%80%99s-new-mining-act/ and Letter of Chief Donny Morris behalf of KI to Minister of Northern Development and Mines
Hon Rick Bartolucci Nov 15th 2011 available at http://kilands.org/2011/11/14/ki-and-ontario-joint-panel-talks-breakdown/.
See http://kilands.org/2011/11/16/province-will-raise-k-i-s-concerns-with-mining-company/.
ibid.
Province to pay miner $3.5 M to leave claims First Nation said God’s Lake Resources was working on burial grounds CBC News Posted:
Mar 29, 2012 http://kilands.org/2012/03/30/province-to-pay-miner-3-5-m-to-leave-claims/.
Conversation with David Peerla.
No Means No: The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Fight for Indigenous Resource Sovereignty.
Conversation with David Preeta; KI letter to De Beers 2010; Statement of the Peoples of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug
Statement of the Peoples of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.
Other first nations such as the Neskantaga First Nation have also asserted that ‘The practical reality is that no project in the Ring of Fire
can proceed without First Nation consent’ see http://neskantaga.com/.....
ABORIGINAL LAW FORUM Merle C. Alexander Partner, First Nations Practice Group January 26, 2010.
LANDMARK IBAS & THE PRECEDENTS THEY SET BC Aboriginal Business Association Merle C. Alexander Co-Leader & Partner,
Aboriginal Law Group November 16, 2012.
Ross River Dena Council v Government of Yukon 2012 YKCA 14.
Memorandum of Understanding between Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Deninu Kue First Nation, and Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation
(Akaitcho Dene First Nations / AKFN) and NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines Regarding Collaboration Towards Mutually Beneficial
Mineral Exploration and Development in Akaitcho Territory http://www.miningnorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Akaitcho-Chamber-
Making Free, Prior and Informed Consent a Reality