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8 Sep 2020

Latin America: Indigenous and afro-descendant communities present declarations to launch the V Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights

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During two events prior to the V Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, indigenous peoples and people of African descent from the region met to discuss the challenges posed by the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing problems they face due to business activity in their territories.

They discussed the lack of implementation of ILO Convention 169 and the lack of genuine consultation and free, prior and informed consent processes. They also discussed the lack of mechanisms to guarantee the real participation of these communities in decision making on economic investment projects in their territories.

Indigenous peoples and people of African descent demand that national and transnational companies that threaten the effective enjoyment of their human rights respect their internationally recognised rights.

The V Regional Forum began with the reading of declarations by indigenous afro-descendants communities; both declarations are available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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  • No more deaths! Self-determination, free, prior and informed consent without racism
    8 Sep 2020
    Article

    Organizations of peoples of African descent participating in the Virtual Seminar "Afro-descendant Communities in the Business Context of Latin America and the Caribbean" inform the participants of the V Regional Forum of Latin America and the Caribbean on Business and Human Rights of our position regarding the challenges we face in the context of the pandemic originated by the Covid-19, referring to business actions in our region and their impact on our people.

  • RECOMMENDATIONS TO LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STATES, BUSINESSES, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND UN AND INTER-AMERICAN COURT SYSTEMS
    8 Sep 2020
    Article

    State initiatives to regulate consultation in order to eliminate the consent of our peoples in relation to extractive, infrastructure and tourism activities are not consulted, or even insist on making the consultations virtual. And when ethnic communities win the issue of positive norms, governments omit their application, for example, in Brazil, with Decree 4887, a legal instrument that ratifies the ethnic-territorial rights of Quilombola communities.

  • DECLARATION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PARTICIPATING IN THE V REGIONAL FORUM ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR LATIN AMERICA AN THE CARIBBEAN
    8 Sep 2020
    Article

    While the whole world faces a serious health emergency contingency provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic, we, the Indigenous Peoples, note with great concern the weaknesses of the public health and social protection systems that have been unveiled in several countries of the region. We are also alarmed about the evident fragility of the human rights’ mechanisms -which should ensure the full exercise of human rights- specially in this context. Added to this situation are the health and environmental impacts caused by business projects that contribute to the vulnerability of the indigenous communities living in extractive contexts.