Essays about: "Free Informed and Prior Consent"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Free Informed and Prior Consent.

  1. 1. The responsibilities of LKAB to respect the rights of the Sami people - a Business and Human Rights perspective on access to remedy in the Swedish mining sector

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Izabell Zaza; [2023]
    Keywords : public international law; state-owned-enterprises; business and human rights; indigenous peoples; Sweden; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In 2023, the Swedish state-owned enterprise LKAB revealed that it had found Europe’s largest deposit of critical minerals, which are needed in green technology. Being located on indigenous territory, a mine would impact the migration of reindeers, a Sami practice which form the basis of their culture and status as indigenous peoples under international law. READ MORE

  2. 2. What are the Underlying Factors for the Poor Implementation of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Principle in Australia, Canada, and the United States? : A Qualitative Comparative Study

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Isra Bashir Ahmed; [2022]
    Keywords : Settler-Colonialism; FPIC Extractive Industry; Stakeholder approach; Power Asymmetries; Logic of Elimination; Doctrine of Discovery; Terra Nullius; Global Capitalism; Dakota Access Pipeline; Canadian Land Claims; Native Title Act; John v M’intosh; FPIC CSR.;

    Abstract : It has been 15 years since the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized the Free, Prior and Informed consent Principle, yet it has not been able to function to its fullest potential. This Thesis aims to carry out a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the following three countries of Australia, Canada, and the United States. READ MORE

  3. 3. Mining and Indigenous Peoples' rights: an analysis of the Brazilian Amazon from an international human rights law perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Liliana Picchi Cappuccelli; [2022]
    Keywords : Mining; gold; Indigenous Peoples; Brazilian Amazon; Indigenous lands; sustainable development; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The present study seeks to understand the impacts of mining on Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the Brazilian Amazon. For this purpose, after an introduction of the context of mining historically, socially, and geographically in Brazil, a framework of Indigenous Peoples’ rights is described, and each right analyzed separately. READ MORE

  4. 4. A Sami Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent under EU law? : Indigenous Rights from an EU Law Perspective

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Louise Corselli; [2021]
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  5. 5. More than a pipeline: understanding and responding to the environmental injustices surrounding the Coastal GasLink pipeline conflict

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Avital Meira van Meijeren Karp; [2020]
    Keywords : Environmental justice; First Nations; Indigenous research methods; Pipeline conflicts; Canada; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The winter of 2020 was dominated by Canadian and international news coverage about a group of indigenous land defenders in Northern British Columbia, Canada. At the centre of the media frenzy was a pipeline conflict involving an indigenous community, namely, the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and Canada’s largest private sector investment ever which is set to cross directly through Wet’suwet’en territory. READ MORE