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In recent decades, funding agencies, universities and research institutes have imposed written forms where researchers declare to have the free and informed consent and/or endorsements of the indigenous people, communities or institutions with whom they are going to develop their anthropological work. This is in compliance with National Law No. 24071 which approves Convention 169 of the International Organization on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in independent countries. Accordingly, codes of professional ethics have been written and different ethics committees have been created to regulate and endorse these scientific and academic practices. The narration and reflection on the ethnographic situations experienced together with members of indigenous communities in the Province of Córdoba (Argentina) in response to the request for endorsement for university extension scholarships, the request for consent to write and publish a book about their ancestors, the holding of a discussion and the collective writing of notes for the website of the Museum of Anthropology in tha Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, are presented in these pages. The objective is to change “an additional obligation, an additional requirement” into an object of study, taking into account the intercultural context in which researchers find themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Indigenous peoples have been excluded from the process of evolution of International Human Rights Law after Second World War (1945). When the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted the Declaration on the right to development in 1986 indigenous peoples were excluded once again, in spite of a number of proposals to incorporate them as subjects of their right to development. This lacuna has been filled with the recent adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, where both their right to development and their free, prior and informed consent have been enshrined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La consulta previa es un derecho fundamental del que son titulares los grupos étnicos para decidir sobre todo tipo de medida estatal que pueda afectarlos directamente. Encuentra su fundamento constitucional en el reconocimiento de la identidad multicultural del Estado colombiano, bajo una óptica democrática incluyente; en el derecho que tienen los pueblos a decidir sus propias prioridades de acuerdo con sus propias creencias, instituciones y/o territorios que ocupan o utilizan; y en el derecho de participar en el diseño, implementación y evaluación de programas de desarrollo nacional y regional susceptibles de afectarlos. En este sentido, el Estado colombiano ha sido receptor de importantes instrumentos internacionales para la protección de los derechos de las minorías étnicas, no obstante, los órganos legislativo y gubernamental no han brindado los instrumentos legales y reglamentarios suficientes para hacer efectiva tal protección, vacío que ha sido suplido por una labor activa de la Corte Constitucional. En este sentido, a través de la jurisprudencia constitucional el Estado colombiano ha pasado de una concepción restringida de la aplicación del derecho a la consulta previa a una ampliamente extensiva que evoluciona hacia el consentimiento libre, previo e informado, el cual implica que el Estado debe buscar el consentimiento de los grupos étnicos en un diálogo intercultural de buena fe, con información oportuna y veraz que les permita ser conscientes del contenido, alcance y consecuencias de las medidas que se pretende adoptar. En este contexto, el consentimiento libre, previo e informado condiciona el accionar de la administración pública, constituyendo un referente de obligatorio cumplimiento y garantía de transparencia en la gestión administrativa.

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