A/HRC/39/37 consultation process for the construction of a solar park in the indigenous community of San José Tipceh. 14. The country office was also involved in several other processes during which consultations were proving insufficient, for example in connection with the Otomí community of Xochicuautla being affected by the construction of a highway in their sacred forest. The office played an important role in the suspension of all construction operations and in the establishment of a round table that resulted in agreements being reached between the parties in May 2018. 15. The country office organized several capacity-building activities related to the principle of free, prior and informed consent. For example, in June 2017 it trained representatives of the Ministry of Energy, the Energy Regulatory Commission, the National Hydrocarbons Commission and the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, among others. 16. As a result of a communication and a press statement issued in July 2017 by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, on the ongoing negotiations between oil companies and the Government in Peru, the Government began a dialogue with the indigenous authorities prior to considering new licences for oil exploitation. A 30-year contract for future extraction rights in the Amazon rainforest, in the country’s Loreto region, was under negotiation. 17. In July 2017, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication to the Government of Nepal regarding an ongoing Kathmandu Valley road improvement project, referring to allegations of forced evictions and the destruction of cultural property, and to the lack of consultation with and of free, prior and informed consent from the Newar indigenous peoples affected. The Government halted the road project pending the decision of the Supreme Court on the matter. 18. In April 2017, the Special Rapporteur was invited to undertake a working visit to Honduras to provide advice on draft legislation regarding the obligation to consult with indigenous peoples. Subsequent written commentaries on the draft law, made public by the Special Rapporteur in June 2017, helped to make all actors aware of the international human rights standards related to consultation and consent, while also encouraging the inclusion of all actors in the discussion. 19. The Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises engaged with representatives of indigenous peoples during its official country visits to Canada (May 2017), Peru (July 2017) and Thailand (March–April 2018), addressing specific human rights concerns related to indigenous peoples’ rights with reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the requirement of free, prior and informed consent. 1 20. The Working Group addressed specific challenges faced by indigenous peoples in its 2017 report to the General Assembly, 2 and has also sent letters to States and private companies, under the communications procedure, regarding the situation of indigenous peoples affected by business activities. 21. Over the course of the reporting period, human rights treaty bodies consistently raised issues related to the rights of indigenous peoples to consultation and to the principle of free, prior and informed consent. 3 They recommended that States apply existing protocols in consultation with indigenous peoples before creating new ones and stressed that new protocols should be developed in accordance with the relevant international human rights standards. 1 2 3 4 Reports to be presented to the Human Rights Council for its thirty-eighth session. A/72/162. In connection with Australia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay and the Russian Federation.