22 U.S.C. § 262p–4 — Instructions to United States Executive Directors; indigenous people in borrowing country; determination of impact; protection of rights; consultation

submitted 39 years ago by Pub. L. 95-118 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 122 words · no verdicts yet

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This law tells Treasury to push multilateral development banks to study how their projects affect indigenous people, protect indigenous land and resource rights, and consult indigenous groups throughout project planning.

The Treasury Secretary must instruct the U.S. representative at each multilateral development bank to start discussions with other bank directors and propose that the bank take steps to: (1) figure out, as fully as possible, at the time of a project's first feasibility study, what impact the project would have on indigenous people in the borrowing country; (2) make sure loan conditions protecting indigenous people's rights to their lands and resources are actually followed; and (3) consult with indigenous people, and with nongovernmental groups that represent them, at every stage of designing, planning, carrying out, and monitoring the loan.

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The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to initiate discussions with other executive directors of the respective bank and to propose that the bank take such steps as may be necessary—

(1)

to determine, at the time an initial feasibility study is conducted with respect to a proposed project and to the fullest extent possible, the impact such project would have on indigenous people in the borrowing country;

(2)

to ensure compliance with loan conditionalities relating to the protection of the rights of indigenous people to lands and resources; and

(3)

to consult with indigenous people, and nongovernmental organizations representing indigenous people, at every phase of loan design, planning, implementation, and monitoring.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 95–118, title XVI, § 1605, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(e) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–131, 1329–134.)

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1987Enacted · Pub. L. 95-118 · 101 Stat. 1329

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