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Free, Prior and Informed Consent is a new global model for relations between state governments and Indigenous communities. This article analyzes state-led consultations in Bolivia’s and Peru’s hydrocarbon sectors. Barriers to effective consultation include: lack of Indigenous ownership; Indigenous visions and demands not being understood; and limi…

Strengthening of indigenous organizations in Latin America. The right to prior consultation: Legal norms, practices and conflicts in Latin America
Report

2013 - Español - Practical

Strengthening of indigenous organizations in L…

Almut Schiling-Vacaflor, Riccarda Flemmer


Report on the legal norms, practices, advances and deficits of prior consultation in Latin America.

Who Controls the Territory and the Resources? Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) as a Contested Human Rights Practice in Bolivia
Scientific Paper

2016 - English - Technical

Who Controls the Territory and the Resources? …

Almut Schiling-Vacaflor


The article scrutinizes the struggles over prior consultation and free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and analyses the divergent interpretations of what this right would entail in Bolivia. Similar conversations have played an important role in resource conflicts across Latin America.