Declaración de Manila de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Industrias Extractivas y Pueblos Indígenas

The Manila Declaration outlines the severe environmental and human rights violations caused by extractive industries on Indigenous lands, calling for a moratorium on new projects and the mandatory application of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).

• Extractive industries have caused severe environmental degradation, including the erosion of biological diversity and contamination of soil, air, and water, while contributing significantly to climate change, particularly through fossil fuel extraction.
• Indigenous territories contain over 60% of the world's most coveted minerals, leading to unsustainable exploitation by corporations without consent, resulting in human rights violations such as arbitrary arrests, torture, and forced disappearances.
• The document demands a moratorium on new mining, oil, and gas projects that threaten Indigenous communities until structures are in place to guarantee human rights, with the affected communities deciding when these requirements are met.
• The declaration asserts that the human right to water is fundamental and must take precedence over extractive projects, specifically condemning the World Water Council for reducing this right to a 'basic need'.
• Indigenous Peoples demand full and effective participation in international climate change negotiations and insist that mitigation and adaptation measures must respect their rights.
• The document calls for the immediate end of the criminalization of community resistance and the violence directed at Indigenous leaders, activists, and lawyers defending their lands.
• The declaration requests that the World Bank Group and other international financial institutions stop financing fossil fuel projects and large-scale mining on Indigenous lands, and that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) include Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in its safeguard policies.
• Specific harmful mining practices are called to be prohibited, including tailings discharge in rivers, gas flaring, submarine tailings disposal, mountaintop removal, and open-pit mining.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (2009). Declaración de Manila de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Industrias Extractivas y Pueblos Indígenas. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Declaracion_Manila_Mar09.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. Declaración de Manila de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Industrias Extractivas y Pueblos Indígenas. 2009. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Declaracion_Manila_Mar09.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{centerforinternationalenvironmentallaw2009declaracin, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{Declaración de Manila de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Industrias Extractivas y Pueblos Indígenas}}, publisher = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2009}, month = mar, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Declaracion_Manila_Mar09.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }