GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT
Cases requiring suspension due to their
impact on the life, integrity or full
development of peoples, when certainty
exists that the impact would be serious, or
in the cases established in constitutional and
international law
When the historic-cultural heritage of
Indigenous Peoples will be damaged
When the life or physical or cultural integrity
of a people will be affected
When the use of force or coercion is implied,
which violates the human rights and freedoms
of peoples
When subsistence conditions, such as water
or food security, will be impacted
When discrimination in the exercise of rights
is implied
When cultural integrity or the integrity of
values, practices and institutions will be
damaged
In cases involving highly-vulnerable peoples,
such as peoples in isolation and initial contact
The following are specifically not allowed:
- Concessions for extractive activities at headwaters, on glaciers, tundra,
wetlands, waterholes, rivers, or forests, which are consider untouchable for
such purposes.
- Measures that provoke the loss of lands, territories or resources; or the
accumulation of land by third parties.
- Measures that impact or eliminate biodiversity
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