Nations’ Land Rights vs. Corporate Exploitation
Muhammad Al-Hashimi, Hiroshi Fukurai, Amelia Marchand, Sabina Singh, Rudolph C. Rÿser, PhD, Melissa Farley, Irene Delfanti, Aline Castañeda Cadena
Volume 21, Number 2 (2022) 21 (2): 1-42
Keywords Extractive Industries, indigenous peoples, extraction, environmental destruction, climate change
Abstract
Challenging the predatory impact of extractive industries upon indigenous nations and peoples around the globe requires the formulation of effective global strategies to pursue the creation and implementation of a legal framework. Analysts suggest five possible strategies to resist successfully and potentially overcome state-assisted corporate extraction and prevent environmental destruction of biodiversity, climate change, sea-level rise, and frequent occurrences of cross-species virus pandemics around the globe:
(1) The effective deployment of civil lawsuits against extractive industries, their inner staff, and corporate personnel.
(2) The human rights registration exposure of predatory extractive corporations to hold them accountable to internationally recognized human rights laws.
(3) The public exposure and “shaming” of corporate, political, and investor leaders and financiers who reap profits and powers from extractive industries and financial accessories.
(4) The engagement of effective vertical policy organizing, such as the strategic deployment of lobbying and political pressures against nations, states, regional inter-state organizations, and NGOs.
(5) The facilitation of indigenous voices advancing demands, oppositions, and resistance to the actions taken by the extractive industrial complex to block access to nations’ territories and resources. Mediation establishing a balanced and mutually acceptable decision between concerned parties (transnational corporation, indigenous nations, and perhaps a state as well) employs concepts of accommodation and mutual benefit reducing or eliminating all violent effects of resource exploitation inside indigenous territories.
Muhammad Al-Hashimi
Hiroshi Fukurai
Amelia Marchand
Sabina Singh
Rudolph C. Rÿser, PhD
Melissa Farley
Irene Delfanti
Aline Castañeda Cadena
Published January 1, 2022
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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