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Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants and Racial Discrimination

Explore the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant communities in the Americas, including discrimination, human rights violations, and access to justice. Learn about key jurisprudence cases and thematic reports highlighting the struggles and rights of these marginalized groups.

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Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants and Racial Discrimination

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  1. Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants and Racial Discrimination July 2015

  2. Indigenous Peoples - Major thematic trends: Generalized and multiple discrimination against indigenous peoples; Institutional, cultural, linguistic, economic and geographic barriers to access to justice; Human rights violations in the context of extractive, development and investment projects; Violations to their right to prior, free and informed consultation; Aggressions against human rights defenders and indigenous leaders;

  3. Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua – August 31, 2001; Case of the Indigenous Community Yakye Axa v. Paraguay – June 17, 2005; Case of the Saramaka People v. Suriname – November 28, 2007; Case of the Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community. v. Paraguay – August 24, 2010; Case of Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v. Ecuador – June 27, 2012.

  4. Thematic Reports Indigenous and tribal people’s rights over their ancestral lands and natural resources: Norms and jurisprudence of the Inter‐American human rights system (2010); Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact in the Americas: Recommendations for the full respect of their human rights (2013); The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendent Communities in the context of Extraction, Development and Investment Projects (not yet published).

  5. Precautionary Measures PM 321/12 - Teribe and Bribri of Salitre Indigenous People, Costa Rica; PM 106/15 - Cruz Sánchez Lagarda and others, México; PM 455/13 – Nestora Salgado Garcia, Mexico; PM 60/12 – Members of the Triqui Indigenous Community in the San Pedro River Valley, San Juan Cópala, Putla de Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico; PM 404/10 − Qom Navogoh Indigenous Community of "La Primavera," Argentina;

  6. Afro-descendants – Major thematic trends Invisibility of Afro-descendant populations – particularly in countries in which they are minorities; Access to justice and judicial guarantees; racial profiling, racial bias in the criminal justice system; Systemic violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights; Threats to human rights defenders, particularly in the context of forced displacement; Triple discrimination suffered by women of African descent – race, gender, poverty.

  7. Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court Case of the Afro-descendant communities displaced from the Cacarica River Basin (Operation Genesis) v. Colombia – November 20, 2013; Case of the Girls Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic – September 8, 2005.

  8. Thematic reports The Situation of People of African Descent in the Americas (2011).

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