Corporate responsibility with respect to indigenous rights 2010, para. 28

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Despite the common elements characterizing this question, the role of companies with regard to indigenous rights includes a number of specific aspects, as demonstrated by the various initiatives launched by the former Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The impact of the so-called "megaprojects" on indigenous peoples was also analysed in a thematic report prepared by the former Special Rapporteur. The various international initiatives carried out to date have analysed how lack of awareness of indigenous rights gives rise repeatedly to serious situations of dispossession, environmental contamination, forced displacement and permanent damage to the culture, spirituality and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples.
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)
  • Environment
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
Year
2010
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the HRC (2010), A/HRC/15/37, para. 28.
Paragraph number
28