Informed consent

B. Prior informed consent

Democracy depends on informed consent.

Free, prior and informed consent

(e) The affected persons, groups and communities must provide their full and informed consent as regards the relocation site.

(e) Free, prior and informed consent (2004)

Overview of free, prior and informed consent

This would require full and informed consent.

The voluntary prior informed consent procedure continued to provide protection to all participating countries, not only to Parties to the Convention.

The principle of prior informed consent was further stressed.

(a) The person freely gives his or her informed consent

(a) The person freely gives his or her informed consent

No doubt, I was informed, the consent had been obtained.

Informed consent is the very bedrock of our understanding of democracy.

Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

Relevance of institutional policy frameworks to free, prior and informed consent

Elements of a common understanding of free, prior and informed consent

(a) The person freely gives his or her informed consent and

(a) Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

(a) Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

The Workshop was designed to provide a general overview of the current understanding or understandings of the principle of free, prior and informed consent as a methodological issue.

Determination that the elements of free, prior and informed consent have not been respected may lead to the revocation of consent given.

Their consent was to be not only free and prior, but also informed.

For example, I asked the epilepsy people what are they using for informed consent.

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11.30 12.30 Discussion on Workshop on Free, Prior and Informed Consent in January 2005

Rotterdam Convention Operation of the Prior Informed Consent procedure for banned or severely restricted chemicals

States shall implement the principle of free, prior and informed consent in their legal system.

Special issues and free, prior and informed consent in relation to special areas of work

Several subcommittees are currently working on issues including informed consent transplantation issues and reproductive technology.

The Inter American Development Bank (IADB) discussed the evolution of its policies that contained elements of free, prior and informed consent, including its resettlement policy, which recognized the customary rights of indigenous peoples and their informed consent.

There were a lot of risks involved that they talked about during the informed consent portion.

Of the 201 chemicals concerned, 160 are currently not subject to the prior informed consent procedure.

Of the four chemicals concerned, two are currently not subject to the prior informed consent procedure.

Report of the International Workshop on Methodologies regarding Free, Prior and Informed Consent and Indigenous Peoples

Sometimes indigenous traditional knowledge had entered into the public domain without free, prior and informed consent.

Examples of the application of free, prior and informed consent at the national and international levels

Participants shared their views on the principle and the practices of free, prior and informed consent.

Some of the main operational elements of free, prior and informed consent already identified require that

Building national capacity to collect and disaggregate data and to practice free, prior and informed consent.

In summary, while there were challenges to the implementation of free, prior and informed consent, in general, most participants considered that the favourable outcomes of a free, prior and informed consent process far outweighed the difficulties of such a process.

Participants were informed of the international instruments relevant to free, prior and informed consent (see annex IV for a list of sources of elements related to free, prior and informed consent in international law and practice) and learned of a number of cases in international law practice involving that issue.

In many cases, this exploitation occurred without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples.

The implementation of the principle of free, prior and informed consent presented a number of practical problems.