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 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 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 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 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.
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