{"id":381141,"date":"2019-11-21T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/?p=381141"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:12:42","slug":"business-development-and-indigenous-peoples-rights-seminar-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/news\/business-development-and-indigenous-peoples-rights-seminar-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Business development and indigenous peoples’ rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the first time a NHRI and a NCP organised a seminar together on business activities and Indigenous peoples’ rights, in an area of interest for indigenous people. Read the seminar report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Representatives from Protect Sapmi, Statkraft and Jijnjevaerie Sameby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The seminar was held in Karasjok, the seat of the Sami parliament, and brought together a diversity of perspectives with representatives from business, Sami communities, local governments and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n

The seminar focused on two different cases, the first case from\u00a0the complaint handling<\/a>\u00a0of Norway and Sweden\u2019s NCP on the company Statkrafts\u2019 construction of wind parks in the S\u00e1mi village of Jijnjevaerie in Sweden. The second case was the planned copper mine in Kvalsund, with a particular focus on the human rights implications of these projects and their effects on the S\u00e1mi people\u2019s reindeer herding areas.<\/p>\n

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Mariann Gr\u00e5ik, Jijnjevaerie Sameby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Concrete examples of how conflicts and dialogue are dealt with in practice were presented, both from the business perspective and from the impacted S\u00e1mi communities, and from community representatives who were in favor of the projects and those that were against.\u00a0 Challenges, lessons learnt and best practices for responsible business conduct and consultation with Indigenous peoples on mitigation measures were also discussed.<\/p>\n

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Norway\u2019s NCP launched the Norwegian and\u00a0S\u00e1mi language versions\u00a0<\/a>of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Extractive Sector.<\/p>\n

The guidance contains a chapter on recommendations for dialogue with Indigenous peoples that was discussed during the seminar.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/figure>We hope that S\u00e1mi communities and other indigenous communities companies, governments, as well as other NHRIs and OECD National Contact Points can be better prepared to handle future business development projects in line with international standards on Indigenous peoples\u2019 rights and responsible business conduct.<\/p>\n

Read the seminar report<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norway\u2019s NCP and the Norwegian National Human Rights Institution arranged a seminar to discuss business development and Indigenous peoples’ rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":381135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"language":"en-GB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381141"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381263,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381141\/revisions\/381263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettsteder.regjeringen.no\/ansvarlignaringsliv2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}