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Good Practice Guide: Indigenous Peoples and Mining
ICMM has released Good Practice Guide: Indigenous Peoples and Mining to help members and other mining companies navigate through the complexities associated with mining near indigenous communities. The guide aims to help companies achieve constructive relationships with Indigenous Peoples and to help ICMM members implement their commitments stated in ICMM’s Position Statement on Mining and Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous Peoples and Mining Encounters: Strategies and Tactics
This report addresses the most critical sustainability in an encounter between indigenous peoples and the industry, as well as governments, financiers and non-governmental organizations.
Resource/Extractive Companies and Indigenous Peoples Engagement: RECIPE for Dialogue Project Guidebook
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and First Peoples Worldwide (FPW) have formed an innovative partnership called the Resource/Extractive Companies and Indigenous Peoples Engagement (RECIPE) for Dialogue. This guidebook is a practical tool to help company teams as well as Indigenous leaders and facilitators to explore their relationships and the opportunities and constraints for constructive engagement.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The General Assembly adopted a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous people and outlawing discrimination against them – a move that followed more than two decades of debate. A non-binding text, the Declaration sets out the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, as well as their rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education and other issues.Handbook for Preparing a Resettlement Action Plan
A good practice guide to designing and implementing resettlement action plans for IFC clients and private sector companies. Based on the collective resettlement experience of IFC staff in applying the World Bank Group's policy on involuntary resettlement to IFC investments, the Handbook takes the reader step-by-step through the resettlement planning process and includes practical tools such as implementation checklists, sample surveys and monitoring frameworks.
ILO Convention on indigenous and tribal peoples, 1989 (No.169): A manual
This is an easy-to-use manual to ILO Convention No. 169. It helps to understand the Convention, and how it can be used to gain recognition, promotion and protection of indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights.
Working with Indigenous Communities Handbook (DRAFT)
This module of the Sustainable Minerals Publications Series, previously titled the Best Practice Environmental Management in Mining series, provides a guide to the community consultation process. This handbook provides guidance for resource developers on how to work effectively with Indigenous Communities.
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Good Practice Guide: Indigenous Peoples and Mining
ICMM has released Good Practice Guide: Indigenous Peoples and Mining to help members and other mining companies navigate through the complexities associated with mining near indigenous communities. The guide aims to help companies achieve constructive relationships with Indigenous Peoples and to help ICMM members implement their commitments stated in ICMM’s Position Statement on Mining and Indigenous Peoples.
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (8th Session)
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The University of Queensland’s ‘Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous Cultures’ course will explore the fundamental concepts underpinning cultural heritage management within the context of Indigenous cultures, including intangible heritage, contemporary living heritage, cultural landscapes, the intersection of natural and cultural heritage values, and the principles of co-management.
Mining, People and the Environment
Following the success of the inaugural Mining, People and the Environment conference in 2010, the event returns to Toronto in 2011 with all of the latest developments in corporate social responsibility and environmental best practice.
Once again, speakers and delegates from industry, government and civil society will come together to discuss some of the biggest issues in environmental and social responsibility.
