Human Rights in the Extractive Industries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   • Isabel Feichtner, Markus Krajewski, Ricarda Roesch

   Pages 1-8

3. Transparency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as a Human Rights Instrument: Potentials and Shortcomings

      • Heidi Feldt

      Pages 11-25

   3. United States Law and Conflict Minerals

      • Patrick J. Keenan

      Pages 27-49

   4. The 2017 EU Conflict Minerals Regulation: A Promising European Rite to Remove the Natural Resource Curse?

      • Karsten Nowrot

      Pages 51-75

   5. Community Development Agreements as Tools for Local Participation in Natural Resource Projects in Africa

      • Evaristus Oshionebo

      Pages 77-109

   6. Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights: The Role of Transparency Initiatives

      • Sotonye Frank

      Pages 111-139

   7. Improving Tax Strategy Transparency in the Extractive Industries Sector for the Advancement of Human Rights

      • Wasima Khan

      Pages 141-165

4. Participation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Evolving Duty to Consult and Obtain Free Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples for Extractive Projects in the United States and Canada

      • Cathal M. Doyle

      Pages 169-218

   3. Asserting the Principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Extractive Industry Sector

      • Pacifique Manirakiza

      Pages 219-245

   4. The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Consultation Rights in the Americas: How the Inter-American System Can Better Promote Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

      • C. Ignacio de Casas

      Pages 247-279

   5. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in the Philippines: A Fourth World Critique

      • Armi Beatriz E. Bayot

      Pages 281-309

   6. Norm Contestation and (Non-)Compliance: The Right to Prior Consultation and FPIC in the Extractive Industries

      • Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

      Pages 311-337

   7. State-Investor Contracts and Human Rights: Taking a Critical Look at Transparency and Participation

      • Nora Götzmann

      Pages 339-373

   8. Disruption and Institutional Development: Corporate Standards and Practices on Responsible Mining

      • Radu Mares

      Pages 375-412

5. Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 413-413

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   2. Taking Sides in Scientific Research? The Struggle for the Right to Participate in Public Decision-Making Related to a Mining Project in Brazil

      • Aline Rose Barbosa Pereira

      Pages 415-454

   3. Building the Case for a Home-State Grievance Mechanism: Law Reform Strategies in the Canadian Resource Justice Movement

      • Charis Kamphuis

      Pages 455-509

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. Further, it analyses various instruments that have sought to mitigate human rights violations by defining transparency-related obligations and participation rights. These include the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), disclosure requirements, and free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). The book critically assesses these instruments, demonstrating that, in some cases, they produce unwanted effects. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of resistance to extractive industry projects as a response to human rights violations, and discusses how transparency, participation and resistance are interconnected.

• Human Rights
• Extractive Industries
• Transparency
• Participation
• Resistance
• Transparency initiatives
• Free, prior and informed consent
• Resistance to mining projects

• School of Law, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  Isabel Feichtner

• Faculty of Law, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Markus Krajewski

• School of Law, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Ricarda Roesch

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