Under Putin, the EU acquiesced in downgrading talk about human rights from the summits to twice-yearly low-level human rights consultations.
"There's no rights, no consultation," said one woman.
These are complex issues, involving policies on land rights, community consultation processes and the science of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
Employment legislation has become more and more onerous as Labour has implemented new regulations such as the working time directive (from Europe), and new rights for consultation through works councils (again from Europe).
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.
