Alexandra Goossens-Ishii of @sokaglobal.info & #GeHRBiL shares concrete points at #COP17Armenia:
🔸 Remove brackets around human rights
🔸 Distinguish rightsholders
🔸 Community-based monitoring
🔸 Protect defenders
🔸 Adopt guidelines on Indigenous Peoples & trad. territories, with #FPIC
🔸 Synergies

Energy transition projects are often presented as solutions. Indigenous Navigator tools help ask a necessary question: are these projects also respecting Indigenous rights, lands and decision-making? #EnergyTransition #FPIC https://bit.ly/4lzEaSk

As majority of World Heritage sites were listed without #FPIC, Carmen Rosa Guerra Ariza of IIPFWH calls for reassessment of Outstanding Universal Value, systematic application of FPIC, effective participation in decision-making, and dedicated human rights & complaints mechanism.

UN Deputy HC Awa Dabo emphasized the recognition of rights of Indigenous Peoples, including to participate fully in decisions concerning World Heritage sites connected to their lands, territories, identity & ways of life, with free, prior and informed consent #FPIC at its core.

At the UN Asia-Pacific Business & Human Rights Forum, rights holders called for power, not process: a say from the start, respect for FPIC, safety from reprisals, respect for their expertise. They demand agency. Reflections here👇 tinyurl.com/b9p3uehb #BHR #FPIC #BizHumanRights

H.E. Amb. Francisca Méndez of #Mexico shares the Guidance offers timely and necessary practical recommendations for States & business to ensure #FPIC is respected. She highlights ongoing consultations with view of crafting a general law on Indigenous Peoples to implement UNDRIP.