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This website provides information and resources on FPIC as a tool of self-determination to assist communities in decision making. We have selected articles, tool kits, videos, voice messages, and community stories about FPIC and consultation.

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Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps: Promoting Healthy Communities in Settings of Industrial Changes
Report

2017 - English - Academic

Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps:...

Nak’azdli Whut’en, Lake Babine Nation, The Firelight Group et al.

Indigenous Governance | Industry | Business Practices | Consultation | Corporate Social Responsibility | Land Access | Land Use Planning | Monitoring | Pimatsiwin | Self-Determination

Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps: Promoting Healthy Communities in Settings of Industrial Changes

Indigenous women and children in remote communities are subject to a “risk pile up”. These populations may face negative consequences from remote construction camps, including increased rates of sexual assault and violence, addictions, sexually transmitted infections, and family violence as a result of the presence of industrial camps and transi...

Engaging with Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
Report

2012 - English - Practical

Engaging with Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

Farid Baddache, Faris Natour, Jasmine Campbell et al.

FPIC | Industry | Rights and Legal Framework | Business Practices | Community Engagement | Consultation | Corporate Social Responsibility | Decision Making | Impact Benefit Agreement | International Law | Pimatsiwin | UNDRIP

Engaging with Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

This report emerged out of a workshop held by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) which brought together representatives from extractive industries to discuss the application of FPIC in engagement with Indigenous peoples. The report provides a corporate interpretation of the rights promised under FPIC including its legal requirements, benef...

Operationalizing Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the Extractive Industry Sector? Examining the Challenges of a Negotiated Model of Justice
Scientific Paper

2010 - English - Practical

Operationalizing Free, Prior, and Informed C...

David Szablowski

FPIC | Industry | Rights and Legal Framework | Business Practices | Community Engagement | Corporate Social Responsibility | International Law | Monitoring | Self-Determination | Sustainability | UNDRIP

Operationalizing Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the Extractive Industry Sector? Examining the Challenges of a Negotiated Model of Justice

This article explores the development of the principle of FPIC and the challenges that it presents to conventional forms of governance. FPIC is examined as a form of negotiated justice that aims to produce regulatory decisions through horizontal and decentralized forms of engagement.

Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing in Guatemala: A Case Study Examining Maya Perspectives on the Indigenous Right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
Scientific Paper

2014 - English - Practical

Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing...

Catherine Nolin, J.P. Laplante

FPIC | Indigenous Governance | Industry | Business Practices | Community Engagement | Consultation | Corporate Social Responsibility | Inherent Rights | Land Access | Land Use Planning | Self-Determination | UNDRIP

Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing in Guatemala: A Case Study Examining Maya Perspectives on the Indigenous Right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

This article looks at Guatemala with respect to "consultas comunitarias" and Canadian mining companies that are based in Indigenous communities.

Initiative on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent - Concept Paper
Report

2010 - English - Practical

Initiative on Free, Prior, and Informed Cons...

The Forest Dialogue

Consultation | FPIC | Industry | Corporate Social Responsibility | Decision Making | Land Stewardship | Sustainability | UNDRIP

Initiative on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent - Concept Paper

‘Free, Prior and Informed Consent’ (FPIC) has emerged as a key principle in international law, related to indigenous peoples and is considered necessary in sectors like dam building, extractive industries, forestry, plantations, conservation, bio-prospecting and environmental impact assessment. While the right itself is clearly affirmed, the pra...

Rejection of New Prosperity Project Provides Clarity to Industry: Lake Destroying Projects and Projects Without Indigenous Consent Need Not Apply
News Article

2014 - English - Practical

Rejection of New Prosperity Project Provides...

MiningWatch

FPIC | Industry | Decision Making | Environmental Assessment | Environmental Impact | Land Access | Social & Cultural Impacts | UNDRIP

Rejection of New Prosperity Project Provides Clarity to Industry: Lake Destroying Projects and Projects Without Indigenous Consent Need Not Apply

MiningWatch Canada is glad to share the announcement by Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq that the federal government will not approve Taseko Mines’ New Prosperity gold-copper project. The project, located in south-central British Columbia, was a modification of a previously rejected application. The decision was made after the company’s secon...

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