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This website provides information and resources on FPIC as a tool of self-determination to assist communities in decision making. We have selected articles, tool kits, videos, voice messages, and community stories about FPIC and consultation.

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Realizing Indigenous Rights in the Context of Extractive Imperialism: Canada's shifting and fledgling progress towards the implementation of UNDRIP
Scientific Paper

2019 - English - Practical

Realizing Indigenous Rights in the Context o...

Terry Mitchell

Consultation | FPIC | Indigenous Governance | Informed Decision Making | Rights and Legal Framework | Business Practices | Canadian Law | Self-Determination | UNDRIP

Realizing Indigenous Rights in the Context of Extractive Imperialism: Canada's shifting and fledgling progress towards the implementation of UNDRIP

This article addresses Canada’s shifting yet fledgling progress towards the harmonisation of Canadian domestic law and the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The pathway to reconciliation and sustainable development for Canada is discussed as rights-based resource governance in contrast to Canad...

Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Policy Brief

2008 - English - Practical

Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the Rou...

Forest Peoples Programme

FPIC | Indigenous Governance | Informed Decision Making | Community Engagement | Consultation | Environmental Impact | Impact Benefit Agreement | International Law | Land Stewardship | Land Use Planning | Self-Determination | Social & Cultural Impacts | Sustainability | UNDRIP

Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

This briefing note provides an overview of FPIC in international law and across industry sections. The note also discusses how to identify customary land through mapping; engaging with representative organizations; pairing participation with informed consent; ensuring consent and resolving conflict. This note can inform consent processes through...

Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps: Promoting Healthy Communities in Settings of Industrial Changes
Report

2017 - English - Academic

Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps:...

Nak’azdli Whut’en, Lake Babine Nation, The Firelight Group et al.

Indigenous Governance | Industry | Business Practices | Consultation | Corporate Social Responsibility | Land Access | Land Use Planning | Monitoring | Pimatsiwin | Self-Determination

Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps: Promoting Healthy Communities in Settings of Industrial Changes

Indigenous women and children in remote communities are subject to a “risk pile up”. These populations may face negative consequences from remote construction camps, including increased rates of sexual assault and violence, addictions, sexually transmitted infections, and family violence as a result of the presence of industrial camps and transi...

Aboriginal Self-Determination: Individual Self and Collective Selves
Scientific Paper

2005 - English - Technical

Aboriginal Self-Determination: Individual Se...

Val Napoleon

Indigenous Governance | Rights and Legal Framework | Canadian Law | International Law | Self-Determination | UNDRIP

Aboriginal Self-Determination: Individual Self and Collective Selves

In this article, the author suggests that understandings of self-determination among Indigenous communities in Canada would benefit from an understanding of the self as being autonomous. The author argues that the models of collective self-determination among Aboriginal communities, are too abstract for political arguments and encourages an indi...

State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
eBook

2009 - English - Simple

State of the World's Indigenous Peoples

United Nations

Indigenous Governance | Environmental Assessment | International Law | Social & Cultural Impacts | UNDRIP

State of the World's Indigenous Peoples

This book focuses on the current state of Indigenous Peoples worldwide from a global perspective.

Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing in Guatemala: A Case Study Examining Maya Perspectives on the Indigenous Right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
Scientific Paper

2014 - English - Practical

Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing...

Catherine Nolin, J.P. Laplante

FPIC | Indigenous Governance | Industry | Business Practices | Community Engagement | Consultation | Corporate Social Responsibility | Inherent Rights | Land Access | Land Use Planning | Self-Determination | UNDRIP

Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing in Guatemala: A Case Study Examining Maya Perspectives on the Indigenous Right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

This article looks at Guatemala with respect to "consultas comunitarias" and Canadian mining companies that are based in Indigenous communities.

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