Human Rights in the Extractive Industries

Transparency, Participation, Resistance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Isabel Feichtner, Markus Krajewski, Ricarda Roesch

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This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-26
Mått155 x 235 x 36 mm
Vikt1 004 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights
Antal sidor551
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030113810

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Introduction.- Part One: Transparency.- The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as a Human Rights Instrument: Potentials and Shortcomings.- United States Law and Conflict Minerals.- The 2017 EU Conflict Minerals Regulation: A Promising European Rite to Remove the Natural Resource Curse?.- Community Development Agreements as Tools for Local Participation in Natural Resource Projects in Africa.- Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights: The Role of Transparency Initiatives.- Improving Tax Strategy Transparency in the Extractive Industries Sector for the Advancement of Human Rights.- Part II: Participation.- The Evolving Duty to Consult and Obtain Free Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples for Extractive Projects in the United States and Canada.- Asserting the Principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Extractive Industry Sector.- The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Consultation Rights in the Americas: How the Inter-American System Can Better Promote Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.- Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the Philippines: A Fourth World Critique.- Norm Contestation and (Non-)Compliance: The Right to Prior Consultation and FPIC in the Extractive Industries.- State-Investor Contracts and Human Rights: Taking a Critical Look at Transparency and Participation.- Disruption and Institutional Development: Corporate Standards and Practices on Responsible Mining.- Part III: Resistance.- Taking Sides in Scientific Research? The Struggle for the Right to Participate in Public Decision-Making Related to a Mining Project in Brazil.- Building the Case for a Home-State Grievance Mechanism: Law Reform Strategies in the Canadian Resource Justice Movement.- Transnational Human Rights and Environmental Litigation: A Study of Case Law Relating to Shell in Nigeria.