On August 9, the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, the Inter-American Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights highlighted the importance of procedural safeguards that adequately protect indigenous communities’ land rights and way of life – including the right to prior consultation on projects or policies that will impact them. [IACHR; OHCHR] The right to prior consultation is also enunciated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILO Convention No. 169, and is discussed in the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ Final Study on Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Participate in Decision-Making.