The geography of mining, hydro and palm conflicts
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- not audited
The Q'eqchi' belt (Alta Verapaz–Izabal–Petén) concentrates the nickel, hydropower and palm conflicts (Fénix, Oxec, Renace, REPSA); the north-western highlands (Huehuetenango; Q'anjob'al and Chuj peoples) concentrate the hydropower ones (Cambalam, Ixquisis); and the eastern Xinka corridor (Jutiapa, Jalapa, Santa Rosa) the metal mining ones (Escobal, Cerro Blanco). The Renace conflict (Grupo ACS) in Cahabón could not be documented from a direct source and remains a gap.
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- The death of State-licensed projects in Guatemala
- Guatemala's ratification of ILO Convention 169 and its obligations
- Absence of a prior consultation law and Initiative 5450
- Over 100 community consultations without binding force
- The Constitutional Court's four stages of prior consultation
- The missing consultation law as an investor risk
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