The right to consultation does not grant a veto.The ruling will be studied closely in the myriad Latin American countries struggling to balance big investments with local rights.
Even in the favelas, Brazilians supposedly enjoy a right to consultation before compulsory removal and to being rehoused near their existing homes – chief reason for the rarity of slum clearance.
"There are no current plans to move stadium, and of course we would always give fans the opportunity to have their say in the event that such a situation arose, so the club would support proposals that would formalise this right to consultation," says Mr Bradshaw.
Clients pay $6,500 a month for each area to which they want access, and that gives them the right to consultations by telephone with experts, usually for 45 minutes.
Abusive development of this kind occurs because basic human rights – to consultation, fair treatment, independent legal representation, and trade unions – are missing.
With their constitutional rights to consultation and the accommodation of their interests, the First Nations can tie resource projects up in legal knots for years.
The violations of their rights to consultation and consent – around land acquisition, environmental impacts, indigenous self-governance and the use of traditional lands – has led to serious impacts on their lives and livelihoods," she said.
The taxpayers who paid for that school, who send their children to it, who work in its corridors, should have equal rights to consultation as the churches that happened to work out 200 years ago that getting involved in education was a good thing.
To the Guardian Sanchez described MINEM's interpretation of the law as "loose and wrong", "perverting" the right to prior consultation and making the process meaningless.
CORPI, a federation representing nine indigenous peoples, is also demanding that the right to prior consultation, as the process is termed in Peruvian law, is respected.
The need for Peruvian-style legislation has most recently become evident in neighbouring Bolivia, where the language used in its constitution in recognition of the right to prior consultation is vague and subject to interpretation.
