After a three-day Forum on Mining, Climate Change and Well-being at the Museum of the Nation from November 18 through 20 in Lima, Peru, Indigenous delegates from all over Latin America issued the so-called Lima Declaration demanding the end of large-scale mining by multinational corporations on Indigenous lands. The forum was attended by 376 Indigenous participants from 17 countries.
The Lima Declaration presses governments to revoke mining titles and concessions granted without free, prior, informed consent of Indigenous Peoples and to establish no-mining zones in Indigenous territories, as achieved in Costa Rica.
"This is a significant step forward in the process of building proposals from Indigenous Peoples and social movements against mining impacts, extraction by transnational companies, and the climate crisis," said Miguel Palacin Quispe, general coordinator of the Andean Coordinating Committee of Indigenous Organizations.
Read the Lima Declaration here.
Read more about the Declaration here.
