ABSTRACT
An indispensable condition for exercising the right to prior consultation and to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), as a safeguard for protecting all types of rights of Indigenous Peoples, is that the participants are well informed about any decision to be taken. More specifically, it has been emphasised that Indigenous Peoples are entitled to receive complete and non-biased information, and that different forms of knowledge should be brought into an intercultural dialogue (Flemmer & Schilling-Vacaflor, 2016). When discussing how fair and adequate consultation and negotiation processes should be organised, James Anaya, the former United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, highlighted the need for information gathering and sharing via environmental and human rights impact assessments (Anaya, 2013).
