Extractive industries and indigenous peoples 2013, para. 82
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Just as indigenous peoples have the right to pursue their own initiatives for resource extraction, as part of their right to self-determination and to set their own strategies for development, they have the right to decline to pursue such initiatives in favour of other initiatives for their sustainable development, and they should be supported in such other pursuits as well.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Environment
Person(s) affected
Ethnic minorities
Year
2013
Paragraph type
Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/24/41, para. 82.