Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Transparency Participation Resistance

This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders. Further, it analyses various instruments that have sought to mitigate human rights violations by defining transparency-related obligations and participation rights. These include the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), disclosure requirements, and free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). The book critically assesses these instruments, demonstrating that, in some cases, they produce unwanted effects. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of resistance to extractive industry projects as a response to human rights violations, and discusses how transparency, participation and resistance are interconnected. Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Transparency, Participation, Resistance is written by Isabel Feichtner and published by Springer. ISBNs for Human Rights in the Extractive Industries are 9783030113827, 3030113825 and the print ISBNs are 9783030113810, 3030113817.