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Pitfalls and Pipelines: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries
(Norad) and International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD) who provided the main bulk of the funding for this
expert workshop and the international conference to happen.
Other donors and an advocate organization also supported
these processes and the book publication. These include
the Evangelischer Entwicklüngsdienst (EED) of Germany,
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) and the
International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).
Since Tebtebba was the organization who raised the funds
and organized the expert workshop, we took advantage of
this opportunity to organize the “International Conference
on Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples” before the
expert workshop. Many indigenous leaders and activists, as
well as support groups, expressed their desire for such an
event because the last time a similar process was organized
was 13 years ago. Since then, many developments took place
in terms of changes in the ways extractive industries operate
and the responses taken by indigenous peoples. Significantly
also, in 2007 the UN General Assembly adopted the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
This conference aimed to take stock of what the current
situations are in relation to the state of the industry, especially
in terms of its relations with indigenous peoples, and the responses
and strategies adopted by indigenous peoples. It will
be chance to assess what the trends are in terms of their resistance
or engagement. If there are partnerships forged with
mining, oil or gas companies what came out of these?
The results of this conference were fed into the UNPFII
Expert Workshop. The Expert Workshop included not just
representatives of indigenous peoples and their support
groups but also government representatives, experts, some
members of the UNPFII, and representatives of UN agencies,
funds and donor bodies. This book includes the Final Report
of the Workshop (UN Doc. E/C.19/2009/CRP. 8), which was
adopted by all of us, members of the Forum, in our Eighth
Session in 2009.
For so long, many indigenous peoples in almost all parts of
the world have resisted the entry of extractive industries. This
resistance, however, also resulted into gross and massive viola-