International: Free, Prior And Informed Consent - Making FPIC Work For Forests And Peoples

International: Free, Prior And Informed Consent - Making FPIC Work For Forests And Peoples Marcus Colchester, 2010   The shorthand phrase ‘free, prior and informed consent,’ and the acronym FPIC, refers to the right of indigenous peoples to give or withhold their free, prior and informed consent to proposed measures that will affect them. The right is affirmed in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in the jurisprudence of the international human rights treaty bodies...

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