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Special Report - Social unrest in Latin America I - Mining (ISSN 17414474)
Gap between prior consultation and right to veto
Frequent complaints of the anti-mining protesters are: that governments have approved the initiation of projects involving indigenous territories without the prior consultation to which they are obliged under International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169; that governments have wrongly delegated the consultations to the firms promoting the projects; or have simply disregarded the views of the people affected. A problem in this last case is that the convention does not add to the right to consultation the additional right to veto a project.
- Social unrest in Latin America: opposition to mining projects
- From affected communities to regionwide networks
- Cyanide contamination is the main target
- Gap between prior consultation and right to veto
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- ECUADOR: Correa sees Indians as turncoats
- PANAMA: Ngäbe Buglé win ban on mining
- ARGENTINA: String of protest actions with varied outcomes
- REGION: Four schemes with transnational implications