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Ethnicity.gov: Natural resources, Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Prior Consultation
César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) | June 28, 2012
This book analyzes the origins, practice, and effects of the right to prior consultation for indigenous peoples.
This book analyzes the origins, practice, and effects of the right to prior consultation for indigenous peoples. After tracing the emergence of the right in international law and its incorporation into the “multicultural constitutionalism” of Latin America, it examines how it works in practice. Based on fieldwork in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Chile, it shows the ambiguous effects of prior consultation in socio-environmental conflicts permeated by violence and power imbalances between government, business, and indigenous peoples.
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