their rights, through representatives chosen by
themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their
own indigenous decision-making institutions.
Article 19
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith
with the indigenous peoples concerned through
their own representative institutions in order to
obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.
Article 20
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain
and develop their political, economic and social
systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and
development, and to engage freely in all their
traditional and other economic activities.
2. Indigenous peoples deprived of their means of
subsistence and development are entitled to
just and fair redress.
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