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Addressee: ADB

Paragraph Number: 64
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum urges the Asian Development Bank, in projects that it funds, to ensure that it avoids adverse impacts on indigenous peoples and their watersheds and other fragile ecosystems and to promote the rights of indigenous peoples to land and resources.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development

Addressee: IFIs

Paragraph Number: 55
Session: 12 (2013)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum recommends that international financial institutions adopt and incorporate the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent, without qualification, into their safeguard policies and project-related instruments. International financial institutions must ensure that their clients and borrowers engage in processes with indigenous peoples affected by bank-financed projects to secure their free, prior and informed consent.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development