Australia: rolling back on progress towards rights realization: the Wik peoples’ experiences with 40 years of bauxite mining in their homelands

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Doyle, C. 2015. Australia: rolling back on progress towards rights realization: the Wik peoples’ experiences with 40 years of bauxite mining in their homelands. in: Doyle, C., Tugendhat, H. and Halip, R. (ed.) Mining, the Aluminium Industry, and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). pp. 49-70
Chapter titleAustralia: rolling back on progress towards rights realization: the Wik peoples’ experiences with 40 years of bauxite mining in their homelands
AuthorsDoyle, C.
Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the experience of the Wik peoples in their four decade long struggle for recognition of their rights in the context of bauxite mining, addressing their success in negotiating benefit sharing agreements and their efforts to pursue self-determined development and take control over mining operations in their territories.

Page range49-70
Book titleMining, the Aluminium Industry, and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
EditorsDoyle, C., Tugendhat, H. and Halip, R.
PublisherAsia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
ISBN
Hardcover9786167898223
Publication dates
Print2015
Publication process dates
Deposited13 Nov 2018
Output statusPublished
Web address (URL)https://www.forestpeoples.org/sites/fpp/files/news/2015/11/Mining,%20the%20Aluminium%20Industry%20and%20Indigenous%20Peoples.pdf
LanguageEnglish
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