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A conference paper on mining and the community consultation movement in Latin America, presented at the Western Political Science Association conference in Portland, Oregon in March 2012. Topics discussed include efforts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, role of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and environmental damage due to the existence of the Río Blanco mining project in Perú.

A conference paper about consultation, mining and indigenous mobilization in Latin America is presented which is to be presented at the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle, Washington, in September 2011. The paper discusses topics including indigenous political mobilization in Latin America, Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization, and cases of Peru and Guatemala.

The article examines the challenges faced by the U'wa indigenous people in Colombia in their fight to maintain authority and autonomy over their traditional lands. It also tackles the need for indigenous consultation, and cites the case of the petroleum project of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) on the U'wa's tribal lands wherein two courts have issued contrasting decisions, one favoring and the other deviating from the ruling of the Constitutional Court ordering the national government to consult with the tribe before approving the project.