and regimes provide recognition and adequate
protection for the cultural heritage of indigenous
peoples and intellectual property associated with that
heritage. In adopting such measures, consultations
shall be held to obtain the free, prior and informed
consent of indigenous peoples.
▼Article XXIX.
Right to development
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and
determine their own priorities with respect to their
political, economic, social, and cultural development
in conformity with their own cosmovision. They also
have the right to be guaranteed the enjoyment of their
own means of subsistence and development, and to
engage freely in all their economic activities.
2. This right includes the development of policies, plans,
programs, and strategies in the exercise of their right
to development and to implement them in accordance
with their political and social organization, norms and
procedures, own cosmovisions, and institutions.
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