http://int.piplinks.org/resources/Repsol en http://int.piplinks.org/amazon-indigenous-groups-fight-new-law-would-allow-foreign-companies-their-land <p>It has been said that oil and gas companies follow a bible of sorts here in the jungles of Peru, a universal playbook of their most effective methods for convincing locals that a project will bring them development or—if the locals can’t be convinced of that—to get their way through less benign tactics.</p> <p>The playbook, a spin-off of tactics that date back in spirit to the conquistadores, has worked well until recently, when Indigenous Peoples started comparing notes.</p><span class="clear" /><p><a href="http://int.piplinks.org/amazon-indigenous-groups-fight-new-law-would-allow-foreign-companies-their-land">read more</a></p> http://int.piplinks.org/amazon-indigenous-groups-fight-new-law-would-allow-foreign-companies-their-land#comments Extractive industries Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) Forests and Logging Protected Areas Central and South America Legal - Legislation Repsol UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) UN International Labour Organisations (ILO) Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:50:30 +0100 whit 753 at http://int.piplinks.org http://int.piplinks.org/ecuador-cracks-down-indigenous-leaders-opposed-oil <p>Following the close of the 11th Round oil auction on November 28th, 2013, plain-clothes officers in Quito, Ecuador summarily closed the offices of Fundación Pachamama, a nonprofit that for 16 years has worked in defense of the rights of Amazonian indigenous peoples and the rights of nature.</p><span class="clear" /><p><a href="http://int.piplinks.org/ecuador-cracks-down-indigenous-leaders-opposed-oil">read more</a></p> http://int.piplinks.org/ecuador-cracks-down-indigenous-leaders-opposed-oil#comments Extractive industries Forests and Logging Central and South America Human Rights-Militarisation IP Organisations Legal - Legislation Repsol Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:01:16 +0000 whit 1231 at http://int.piplinks.org