Abstract

[Update: October 2014 - English version available] The present work analyzes the current case law of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights regarding the right to consultation to indigenous communities before States grant concessions to extract natural resources in their territories; the potential conflicts this might cause with third party rights (foreign investors); the consequences for not consulting indigenous communities under the American Convention of Human Rights; and the forms of reparations granted to indigenous communities by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights ...