Businesses and investors have a responsibility to respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples during project development and after project completion under the United Nations Guiding Principles on ...

This series has surveyed a breadth of permitting reform issues, most recently regarding tribal consultation within the United States. International mineral development permitting in or near areas of ...

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has selected two previous legal cases, involving the Cofan (2018) and Waorani (2019) Indigenous groups, as a basis to analyze the country’s process of Free, Prior and ...

The draft of EP4, the latest revision of the Equator Principles, has gone through extensive review by the Equator Principles Association (EPA) and signatory financial institutions (EPFIs) and has now ...

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) has advertised for a consultant to assist it with Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) consultations with indigenous communities. In the last Sunday Stabroek, the ...

THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) have secured Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), which could pave the way for more livelihood ...

The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has formally convened the first community assembly for the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) process for a proposed minerals exploration ...

National Toshaos Council (NTC) Chairman Derrick John has rejected suggestions that efforts to craft a document on Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) were being spearheaded by the government in the ...