More Promise than Practice GBA+ Intersectionality and Impact Assessment

We are interested in how to better understand and respond to the experiences of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit persons, youth, and people with disabilities in resource development and extraction contexts. [...] The concrete impacts … ranged from loss of fishing ground and aquatic and forest native species to displacement, unprecedented physical and mental illnesses, significant climate change, and the loss of ancestral knowledge and the spiritual relation to the territory (Machado et al., 2017, p. [...] 16) points out that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) guarantees individuals the right to participate in public affairs and that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) “also includes the right of women to participate in the formulation of government policy (article 7(b)) and further clarifies that women in rural areas h. [...] In Brazil, the Commission also ruled in favour of the claim of NGOs that the state had not fulfilled its FPIC requirements in the planning of the Belo Monte dam. [...] There is limited evidence in the academic and community literature of political and legal instruments creating enabling environments for the rights and concerns of other historically excluded groups to be recognized in impact assessment and the extractive industries more generally.