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

The Manila Declaration is a statement issued during the International Conference on Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples in March 2009. It outlines the systemic impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous territories and calls for a moratorium on new projects until human rights protections are guaranteed.

• Indigenous peoples suffer disproportionately from extractive industries because more than 60% of the world's most coveted minerals are located within their territories.
• Extractive industries, particularly those focused on fossil fuels, are identified as significant contributors to climate change and environmental degradation, including the destruction of entire ecological systems and the pollution of air, soil, and water.
• The document reports severe human rights violations linked to extractive projects, ranging from the denial of the right to self-determination and land dispossession to arbitrary arrests, torture, forced disappearances, and murders.
• The declaration calls for an immediate moratorium on new mining, oil, and gas projects that affect Indigenous communities until structures are adopted that guarantee the respect of human rights, with the affected communities serving as the sole judges of when these requirements are met.
• The statement demands the recognition of the human right to water, condemning the World Water Council for reducing this right to a "basic need," and asserts that extractive projects must not take precedence over this right.
• The document criticizes interstate infrastructure initiatives, specifically the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA), for developing megaprojects on Indigenous lands without Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
• The declaration requests that the World Bank Group and other international financial institutions immediately cease the financing and promotion of large-scale mining and fossil fuel projects on Indigenous lands.

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} }