Posts Tagged ‘Consulta previa’
Guatemala: Dejusticia intervenes in a process that seeks to protect the right to prior consultation of the Xinka people
During 2012 and 2013, the Ministry of Energy and Mines granted licenses for the exploitation of the Escobal mining company without consulting indigenous people. Eight international organizations presented an amicus to support the communities.
Read MoreKnowledge, resistance and reflection
A new initiative for indigenous leaders in the Global South.
Read MorePermitted to Prohibit Mining
The question that everyone asks here in Salento, Quindío is the same I have heard from mayors and social leaders in many municipalities: can the mining titles given by the National Government supercede local decisions to privilege other activities, like tourism, agriculture, or the conservation of water sources.
Read MoreTwo Democracies
This week in Bogotá and Ibagué, it was clear that the government is split between two different conceptions of democracy.
Read MoreWhat to Do with Human Rights?
To read this post in English click here.
I would like see a human rights discourse with the participation of more people, more ways of knowing, and that is more local.
Read MoreAmicus Curiae in Favor of the Right to Prior Consultation of Mayan Communities in Mexico
This amicus curiae seeks to support the actions of the Mayan communities from Pach-Chan and Canabchen to ask that their right to prior consultation be respected in the case against Monsanto’s genetically modified soy crops.
Read MoreIndigenous Leaders, Afrodescendants and Human Rights Organizations Meet with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
They discussed the implementation of the right to prior, free, and informed consultation and consent in Latin America.
Read MoreRecognition with Redistribution: Ethno-Racial Law and Justice in Latin America
This Dejusticia book presents an analytical framework and an empirical panorama of the reality of indigenous and afro-descendant rights throughout the region. To this end, it traces trends, advances and tensions in the regulation of cultural diversity and ethnic-racial justice through the analysis of four themes
Read MoreDejusticia Launches Research Project about Ethnic-Racial Justice in Latin America
Regarding regulations on diversity in the continent and communities’ demands for recognition.
Read MorePrior Consultation Can Prevent Environmental Damage in Colombia and for Humanity: Daniel Cerqueira
Interview with DPLF’s expert that participated in the 25th Anniversary Seminar of the ILO Convention 169 in Bogotá.
Read MoreIntervention in Favor of the Nasa Community due to Glyphosate in Putumayo
Dejusticia intervened in the revision process of a writ of constitutional protection case due to the violation of the indigenous community Nasa’s right to prior consultation in Putumayo, resulting in the aereal fumigation with glysophate of illicit crops.
Read MoreThe Outstanding Debts of the Ranchería Dam
Coauthored by Angélica María Cuevas
The idea calling for a second phase of the El Cercado dam in the Riego Ranchería District of La Guajira (a Department in Northeastern Colombia), has revived the indigenous group Wiwa’s concerns. They belive that, for a second time, their opinion has not been considered in the government’s plans to authorize, since this year, the construction of preliminary public works for the construction of damns and irrigation systems in the Districts of Ranchería and San Juan del Cesar. These works, according to Ariel Borbón Ardila, head of the Colombian Institute for Rural Development (Incoder, by its name in Spanish), are estimated to cost $546 Billion Colombian Pesos (about $227.5 Million U.S. dollars).
Read MorePeru’s Two Faces
Peru has one face for the international community in the COP 20 and another that its citizens see. Analysis by Dejusticia from Lima.
Read MoreContested Lands, Contested Laws
The process of translating international conventions on consulta previa into laws has not been smooth.
Read MoreFrom the Ethical to the Ethnic
How did the political class take over the seats reserved for Afro-Colombians in Congress?
Read MoreCosigo, the Amazon and Prior Consultations
“To see a world in a grain of sand” wrote William Blake. And in a grain of gold – of the mine that Cosigo Resources is planning to build in the natural park Yaigoié – Apaporis- we can see the future of mining and the environment in Colombia.
Read MoreRepeating Oneself and Expecting a Different Result
About 15 years ago, the national government passed a law regulating the prior consultation process without, ironically, consulting the ethnic communities first.
Read MoreHuman Rights report supporting the complaint brought by the Mapuche Bread-makers Union
This document was presented along with the complaint labor union No. 1 of Mapuche Bread-makers of Santiago (Chile) presented to the Committee of Experts of the ILO alleging that Chile violated the Mapuche’s right to prior consultation protected by Convention 169.
Read MoreThe Wiwa People and the Ranchería Dam (Documentary)
In the 2005, the INCODER began the construction of the El Cercado Dam on the Ranchería River. The government issued the construction license for the dam violating the right of the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to prior consultation. In this documentary, members of the Wiwa People share how their physic and cultural survival was threatened by the construction and their means of resistance they have developed to challenge the Dam.
Read MoreThe Wiwa People and the Rancheria Dam
In this mini documentary, Dejusticia and the Wiwa people describe the effects of the construction of a dam without prior consulation on the affected communities. It shows the devastating affects of the dam on the lives and territority of the Wiwa People.
Read MoreSumak Kawsay: The Sarayaku Case (long version)
In this documentary, Dejusticia and Canal Justicia follow one of the most important cases on environmental conflicts and indigenous rights before the Inter-American Human Rights Court in Latin America: Sarayaku v. Ecuador.
Read MoreSumak Kawsay: The Sarayaku Case (short version)
The Sarayaku vs. Ecuador case began in 2003, when the Poeple of Sarayaku filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. They accused the Ecuadorian government of authorizing a petroleum company to explore for petroleum on their indigenous territory in the Amazon, in violation of their right to prior consultation.
Read MoreGoodbye river: The Dispute over Land, Water and the Rights of the Indigenous living near the Urrá dam
This books tell the story of the dam of Urrá through the central themes of violence and the dispute for land and the natural resources in Colombia.
Read MoreEthnicity.gov: Natural resources, Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Prior Consultation
This book analyzes the origins, practice, and effects of the right to prior consultation for indigenous peoples.
Read MorePrior Consultation: Dilemmas and Solutions
The book provides lessons from the drafting process of the Reparations and Restoration of Land to Indigenous Peoples decree in Colombia.
Read MoreIntervention in the request for annulment of decision T-769/09
projects (Mandé Norte) in indigenous and Afro-Colombian collective territories until affected communities were consulted.
Read MoreIntervention in tutela for the protection of the conformation of community action groups in San Lorenzo
The Governor of the indigenous community of San Lorenzo filed a tutela against the government of Riosucio in order to stop it from promoting the formation of community action groups within the reservation. We argue that the promotion of these groups, undertaken without the consent of the authorities in the cabildo, is a violation of autonomy and the right to ethnic and cultural diversity of the Embera community of San Lorenzo who decided, through its legitimate authority, to not constitute the formation of such groups within the reservation.
Read MoreCitizen Intervention: tutela against the Ministry of Transport and others for violations of the right to prior consultation and territory
In this amicus, support for the arguments advanced by the Colombian Commission of Jurists in order to suspend the construction of a road that crosses indigenous reservations as well as gold mining exploration such until the indigenous peoples affected (Embera, Katío y Embera, Dobida) have been consulted with.
Read MoreRights of the Black Communities
The Community Counsel of the Islands of Rosario filed a tutela against INCODER, arguing that the State has violated its rights of petition and due process, as well as the prior consultation rights of the community, and the existence, and cultural integrity of the community.
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