Major IMPACT ahead:New policy development model created at uOttawaFederal Election 2019What Happened, Why and What Next? CPAC Previous Next A team of professors from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa launched an initiative designed to advance a new model for policy development in Canada. Our task is to compile a series …
Canadian Extractive Companies Operating Abroad Addressing Corporate Abuse Through the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous peoples The purpose of this brief is to identify problems that Indigenous peoples face from Canadian extractive companies operating abroad and to present recommendations to ensure that Indigenous rights to territory and free, prior and …
Are Extractive Activities and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Canada Irreconcilable? Extractive projects on or near Indigenous (home)lands often provoke social conflicts, manifested in different forms and primed by highly unequal relationships between ‘stakeholders’. Although Indigenous peoples have collective rights enshrined in UNDRIP, such as FPIC, that, if fully recognized, would greatly reduce power imbalances, …
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