Summary
In 2008, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador filed a lawsuit claiming the National Assembly was not complying with a sentence from the constitutional court concerning the illegality of a mining law and ways in which pre-legislative consultation and prior consultation should be carried out for decisions that affect the rights of indigenous peoples and nationalities. The court declared non-compliance in relation to the regulation of of right to pre-legislative consultation and partial non-compliance in relation to the regulation of rights to prior consultation.