{"id":22157,"date":"2015-03-16T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?p=22157"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:45:07","slug":"press-release-dplf-oxfam-latin-american-organizations-report-to-iachr-on-challenges-to-implementing-the-right-to-prior-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/2015\/03\/16\/press-release-dplf-oxfam-latin-american-organizations-report-to-iachr-on-challenges-to-implementing-the-right-to-prior-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE: DPLF, Oxfam &#038; Latin American organizations report to IACHR on challenges to implementing the right to prior consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>Washington, DC. March 16, 2015.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Tomorrow, Tuesday March 17, 2015\u00a0<\/strong>the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), Oxfam and allied organizations in Latin America will participate in a public hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>Corporations, Human Rights, and Prior Consultation in the Americas.<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">During the hearing the organizations will highlight that despite favorable progress in the\u00a0 right to consultation, there are still\u00a0<strong>challenges to make it effective<\/strong>, linked to the role of the Judiciary in determining the content of the right to consultation; budget shortfalls; lack of competence in \u00a0government agencies; lack of coordination between agencies responsible for its implementation; among other issues. In this instance, DPLF and Oxfam will present a comparative study on this right in six countries in the region: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala and Peru<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>Many of the states in the region considered the issue resolved<\/strong>\u00a0with the adoption of laws that recognize the right to consultation and have boasted of these developments in various international forums.\u00a0<strong>But they underestimated the existence of important challenges<\/strong>\u00a0for the law to be accessible and enforceable in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Recommendations that the organizations will make during the hearing include: the need to align domestic law with international standards, change or eliminate legislative and administrative measures which impede the full realization of the right, and strengthen or create a state institution responsible for consulting indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The following panelists will participate in the hearing: Rocio Avila from Oxfam, Daniel Cerqueira from DPLF; Juan Carlos Ruiz from the Legal Defense Institute (IDL) and C\u00e9sar Gamboa from Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), both in Peru; Carlos Andr\u00e9s Baquero from Dejusticia of Colombia; and Biviany Rojas from the Red de Coopera\u00e7\u00e3o Amaz\u00f4nica (RCA) in Brazil. Indigenous leaders participating in the hearing include: Plinio Pizango from the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP); Francisco Mateo from Council of Western Peoples of Guatemala and Patricia Tobon of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><u><strong>Hearing:<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\nDate: Tuesday, March 17, 2015<br \/>\nTime: 5.45 \u2013 6.45pm<br \/>\nWhere: Sal\u00f3n Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo (8th floor) OAS building GSB:<br \/>\n1889 F St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will be broadcast live via the OAS web channel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/OASEnglish2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">For more information on this hearing or an interview with one of the participants, please contact:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Cerqueira<\/strong><br \/>\nSenior Program Officer<br \/>\nDue Process of Law Foundation<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:dcerqueira@dplf.org\">dcerqueira@dplf.org<\/a><br \/>\nTel: (202) 462-7701<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC. March 16, 2015.\u00a0Tomorrow, Tuesday March 17, 2015\u00a0the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), Oxfam and allied organizations in Latin America will participate in a public hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on\u00a0&#8220;Corporations, Human Rights, and Prior Consultation in the Americas.&#8220; During the hearing the organizations will highlight that despite favorable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"country":[876,889,877,890,891,892,893,878,894,879,880,881,882,883,895,888,897],"issue":[861,865],"program":[874],"resource":[896],"class_list":["post-22157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","country-america-central","country-argentina","country-belice","country-bolivia","country-brazil","country-chile","country-colombia","country-costa-rica","country-ecuador","country-el-salvador","country-guatemala","country-honduras","country-nicaragua","country-panama","country-peru","country-america-del-sur","country-venezuela","issue-indigenous-peoples","issue-inter-american-system-of-human-rights","program-climate-justice-and-human-rights","resource-press-releases"],"acf":{"boton_1":"","url_boton_1\u00ba":"","boton_2":"","url_boton_2":"","boton_3":"","url_boton_3":"","boton_4":"","url_boton_4":"","boton_5":"","url_boton_5":"","boton_6":"","url_boton_6":"","boton_7":"","url_boton_7":"","boton_8":"","url_boton_8":"","boton_9":"","url_boton_9":"","boton_10":"","url_boton_10":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22158,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157\/revisions\/22158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"resource","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource?post=22157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}