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Briefing paper

Negotiating Consent: Lessons in defending the right to decide

09/12/2021

3 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Indigenous peoples have long asserted and defended their rights and customary land tenures against the unlawful enclosure of their territories. Yet, despite normative recognition of the right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC)—and public commitments by major multinational companies, international financial institutions, and global banks to apply the standard of consent—power imbalances continue to […]

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Research report

Empty Promises Down the Line? A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

10/09/2020

2 documents

109 pages long

Languages: English

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This community based human rights impact assessment highlights the social, environmental, cultural, and human rights risks of the East African Crude Oil pipeline for communities located along the proposed pipeline corridor in Uganda and Tanzania. Co-researched and produced by Global Rights Alert (“GRA”), Civic Response on Environment and Development (“CRED”), Northern Coalition for Extractives and […]

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Briefing paper

Consent is Everybody’s Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent

20/08/2019

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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A community’s choice to give, or withhold, their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) to a project or activity planned to take place on their land is a recognized right of Indigenous peoples under international law. It is also a best practice principle that applies to all communities affected by projects or activities on the […]

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Briefing paper

Testing Community Consent: Tullow Oil project in Kenya

08/11/2017

1 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study assesses the extent of Tullow Oil’s compliance with the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Turkana County, Kenya. It examines the company’s engagement in selected communities and finds that, while community engagement processes have improved in important ways, it has yet to achieve FPIC. The study provides recommendations that […]

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Briefing paper

Community Consent Index 2015: Oil, gas, and mining company public positions on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

23/07/2015

4 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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As large-scale oil, gas, and mining projects move to increasingly remote areas, they threaten to generate adverse impacts for the local communities and indigenous peoples who inhabit these areas. For many project-affected communities, Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) represents a critical tool for ensuring that they have a say in whether and how extractive […]

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Briefing note

Power, Rights, and Inclusive Markets: Public policies that support small-scale agriculture

05/06/2013

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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By supporting small-scale agricultural producers, policy makers in governments and donor agencies can help some of the poorest people in the world to improve their livelihoods. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that most donor and government policies are currently biased towards large-scale agriculture at the expense of small-scale producers, women, and rural communities. This briefing note draws […]

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Negotiating Consent: Lessons in defending the right to decide

Empty Promises Down the Line? A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Consent is Everybody’s Business: Why banks need to act on free, prior and informed consent

Testing Community Consent: Tullow Oil project in Kenya

Community Consent Index 2015: Oil, gas, and mining company public positions on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

Power, Rights, and Inclusive Markets: Public policies that support small-scale agriculture