Abstract
The protection of indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact (PIACI) is one of the most complex issues in the human rights and environmental agenda. The implementation of frameworks to protect PIACI involves addressing conflicts by the advance of public and private initiatives and interests in their territories. This paper focuses on PIACI Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder forum (MSF) established in Peru's Loreto region to contribute to protecting these groups. The MSF sought to address the long-standing delays in the creation of five Indigenous Reserves for PIACI in Loreto's forests. The paper argues that MSFs may be fruitful spaces to raise awareness of the rights of vulnerable peoples and coordinate the implementation of supporting actions, but only when participants hold a shared respect for those recognised rights. If not, MSFs may become spaces where powerful actors relegate recognised rights to a perspective among others.
Highlights
This paper focuses on populations indigènes isolées et en contact initial (PIACI) Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder forum (MSF) organized to protect the Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI1) in Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon
This paper focuses on PIACI Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder forum (MSF) organized to protect the Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI1) in Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon
The Inter-American and United Nations Human Rights systems recommend that public policies consider “isolation” as an expression of PIACI’s right to self-determination, focusing on “their decision not to have contact and their choice to remain in isolation” (IACHR 2013: 10)
Summary
This paper focuses on PIACI Roundtable, a multi-stakeholder forum (MSF) organized to protect the Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI1) in Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon. The UN guidelines for national PIACI policies include recommendations for the recognition of their rights in contexts where they are incompatible with the rights of other actors or economic interests (OHCHR 2012). These guidelines advise following existing procedures in international law – conducting prior assessments on what implications the specific measures or choices could have for each party and, on that basis, grant the exercise of rights of those who would “suffer the worse consequences of the lack of the exercise of the right” As PIACI are highly vulnerable, policies for their territories should be oriented to the prevention of induced contacts and the protection of the areas on which their lives depend
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