Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Investment

Date: May 12, 2016
Location: Ford Foundation, New York

CCSI and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples co-hosted a workshop on indigenous peoples and investment. The workshop brought together indigenous representatives, legal practitioners, academics, and other stakeholders to discuss how international investment and trade frameworks, and the international human rights law regime can be reformed to strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples to ownership and use of their lands, territories, and resources, as well as their related self-determination and cultural rights. The workshop took place in New York during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and in the lead-up to the Special Rapporteur’s second thematic report on international investment and the rights of indigenous peoples. An outcome document synthesizing discussions that took place is available here.