Pitfalls and Pipelines - Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links

Appendix 1: The Manila Declaration
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• To establish an International Day of Action on
Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples.
We call on Civil Society Organizations:
• to increase their support, and solidarity in a manner
that is sensitive to the issues of Indigenous Peoples;
and
• especially conservation and other NGOs, not to
impose themselves or their views upon us, but respect
our legitimate leadership, and also seek the FPIC of
communities before intervening; this also applies to
academics including anthropologists.
We call on Companies:
• To respect international standards as elaborated on
in the normative framework of indigenous peoples
rights, especially the minimum standards as set forth in
the UNDRIP, ILO Convention 169 and International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (ICERD), which includes in particular,
the right to lands, territories and resources and attendant
right to FPIC. This also applies to consultants;
• To submit to independent and credible monitoring;
• To be accountable for the environmental disasters,
destruction and human rights violations as a result of
their operations;
• To employ proven technology and adhere to the precautionary
principle at all levels and in each project;
• To recognize the specific vulnerability of indigenous
women to the negative impacts involved with extractive
industries;
• To respect the traditional knowledge and intellectual
property of Indigenous Peoples. This implies not appropriating
the language or names of Indigenous
Peoples for companies or projects;
• To ensure full transparency in all aspects of their operations,
and especially to ensure affected communities
have full access to information in forms and languages
they can understand; and
• To conduct and implement environmental, social,
cultural and human rights impact assessments to the