Australia: rolling back on progress towards rights realization: the Wik peoples’ experiences with 40 years of bauxite mining in their homelands

Doyle, Cathal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8463-3128 (2015) Australia: rolling back on progress towards rights realization: the Wik peoples’ experiences with 40 years of bauxite mining in their homelands. In: Mining, the Aluminium Industry, and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. Doyle, Cathal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8463-3128, Tugendhat, Helen and Halip, Robeliza, eds. Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), pp. 49-70. ISBN 9786167898223. [Book Section]

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the experience of the Wik peoples in their four decade long struggle for recognition of their rights in the context of bauxite mining, addressing their success in negotiating benefit sharing agreements and their efforts to pursue self-determined development and take control over mining operations in their territories.

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