2019 - English - Practical
Realizing Indigenous Rights in the Context of …
This article addresses Canada’s shifting yet fledgling progress towards the harmonisation of Canadian domestic law and the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The pathway to reconciliation and sustainable development for Canada is discussed as rights-based resource governance in contrast to Canada’…
2008 - English - Practical
Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the Round…
This briefing note provides an overview of FPIC in international law and across industry sections. The note also discusses how to identify customary land through mapping; engaging with representative organizations; pairing participation with informed consent; ensuring consent and resolving conflict. This note can inform consent processes throughou…
2017 - English - Academic
Indigenous Communities and Industrial Camps: P…
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 transien…
2005 - English - Technique
Aboriginal Self-Determination: Individual Self…
In this article, the author suggests that understandings of self-determination among Indigenous communities in Canada would benefit from an understanding of the self as being autonomous. The author argues that the models of collective self-determination among Aboriginal communities, are too abstract for political arguments and encourages an indivi…
2009 - English - Simple
State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
This book focuses on the current state of Indigenous Peoples worldwide from a global perspective.
2014 - English - Practical
Consultas and Socially Responsible Investing i…
This article looks at Guatemala with respect to "consultas comunitarias" and Canadian mining companies that are based in Indigenous communities.