Two Views of Consulta Previa in Guatemala: A View from the Private Sector
Two Views of Consulta Previa in Guatemala: A View from the Private Sector
By
Cementos Progreso S.A.
Lack of clarity of the regulations and lack of good faith by some community leaders have slowed important investments in Guatemala.
Read a view from Indigenous peoples here.
Guatemala ratified International Labour Organization Convention 169 (ILO 169) on June 5, 1996, more than a year after Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, ruled in Document 199-95 that the Convention did not contradict the Guatemalan Constitution.1
But the lack of clarity in ILO 169 and the absence of clear national guidelines for setting up a consulta previa...
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