This essay provides a synthetic overview of regional developments in the legal recognition of indigenous peoples’ collective rights since the 1990s, focusing particularly on evolving standards on free, prior and informed consent and on current challenges for securing indigenous rights.

 

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(2016) “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the Law in Latin America” in Corinne Lennox and Damien Short (eds), Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. Routledge: New York: pp. 414-424. ISBN: 978-1-85743-641-9: