Free, prior and informed consent: how to rectify the devastating consequences of harmful mining for indigenous peoples’

What do you know about conservation and human rights?

“…They are very impressive, at least as written, and date back over at least 4 decades. IUCN first recognized the right of traditional societies to self-determination nearly 40 years ago at the 1982 World Parks Congress, and has continued to pass resolutions to this effect at its Congresses ever since (Macinnes et al, 2017). Several of the major non-governmental conservation organizations have made equally strong commitments, and in 2009 Conservation International, Fauna & Flora International, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, Wetlands International and WWF signed the Conservation and Human Rights Framework (IUCN, 2009), which reaffirms commitments to respect internationally proclaimed human rights, including those in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in International Labour Organization Convention 169.…”

Mapping contention: Mining property expansion, Amerindian land titling, and livelihood hybridity in Guyana’s small-scale gold mining landscape

“…These findings provide an empirical illustration of how prevailing legal frameworks and national political discourses often exhibit an inherent bias in favour of mineral property interests and against other forms of tenure, particularly customary systems (Colchester 1997;Neumann 1997;Scott 1998;Ribot 1999;Hennessy 2013;Bulkan 2016;MacInnes et al 2017). So, while Hilson and Maconachie (2017, p. 447) have (justifiably) celebrated mineral property rights for the "superior" tenure security that they offer for miners, the article renews suggestions for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) scholars to engage more closely with the justice dimensions of mineral formalization agendas (Kelly & Peluso 2015;Puztel et al, 2015;Damonte 2016;Andrews 2018).…”

Traditional ecological knowledge in innovation governance: a framework for responsible and just innovation

“…To illustrate this with a more concrete example, local scales of representation are reflected in governance frameworks of 'free prior and informed consent' (FPIC) that have 'been driven by the global indigenous movement and is tied to concepts of autonomy and self-determination' (Owen and Kemp 2014, 91). Recognition of FPIC in extractive industries (Hanna and Vanclay 2013;MacInnes, Colchester, and Whitmore 2017) and environmental programs such as REDD+ (Mahanty and McDermott 2013;Pham et al 2015) illustrates how self-determination in the sense of local scales of representation can become a core element of just change and innovation. For example, it is not sufficient that a new mine is determined to be in the national (or even some global) interest but it also needs to be in the interest of the most directly affected local communities.…”