Briefing Paper on Business and Human Rights 2020
Source: The Guardian Briefing Paper on INTRODUCTION The Indigenous Peoples of Asia are Indigenous Peoples occupy lands rich Business and high up on the list of targets and in natural resources (waters, forests victims of human rights violations. and minerals) that are valuable for Killings, enforced disappearances, business operations. However, their Human Rights arbitrary arrest and detention, rights, including to their lands, intimidation, persecution and territories and resources and Free, 2020 violence against Indigenous Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Peoples, Indigenous women and are very often not recognized and/or effectively implemented in business BHR SITUATION OF INDIGENOUS human rights defenders are PEOPLES IN ASIA increasing, even during this COVID- contexts. Laws, plans and activities 19 pandemic period. This trend of related to business and development Indigenous Peoples rights violations (narrowly understood as economic is expected to worsen as the growth) are mostly designed and implemented without meaningful An Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact government continues to centralize and consolidate its powers and participation of Indigenous Peoples, Report, November 2020 pursues its neoliberal economic particularly Indigenous women, even development program. when those laws and projects directly affect them. www.aippnet.org | 1 These result in profoundly negative human rights impacts, Secure governance systems coordinate voluntary including forced evictions/resettlements and loss of lands, isolation and community quarantines which are resources and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples. When capable of maintaining Indigenous Peoples safe. In indigenous communities fight back, they face extreme these incidents, the right to FPIC is key as a community reprisals and risks, such as harassments, attacks, in involuntary isolation, to protect their community disappearances, violence against women and killings of from a virus must have been seen as withholding Indigenous leaders and human rights defenders.
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