Who:
Commissioner Rose-Marie Belle Antoine
Chair and Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Augustine Niber
Executive Director, Center for Public Interest Law
Ghana
Amy Lehr
Associate, Foley Hoag
Emily Greenspan
Senior Policy Advisor for Extractive Industries, Oxfam America
Moderated by:
Ian Gary
Senior Policy Manager for Extractive Industries, Oxfam America
When:
Thursday, July 23
12-1:30 pm
Where:
Oxfam America Office
1101 17th Street, NW, Suite 1300
Washington, DC
Please RSVP by July 20th here (Webex information below)
Lunch will be provided
As large-scale oil, gas, and mining projects move to increasingly remote areas, they threaten to generate adverse impacts for the local communities and indigenous peoples that inhabit these areas. For many project-affected communities, Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) represents a critical tool for ensuring that they have a say in whether and how extractive industry projects move forward.
Oxfam's report examines publicly available corporate commitments regarding community rights and community engagement with a particular focus on FPIC - the gold standard in terms of extractive industry community engagement practices. It aims to highlight changing trends across the industry in order to encourage a race to the top among companies.
WebEx Details:
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Leader PIN: 5194
Conference Code: 829659833