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Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants and Racial Discrimination. July 2015. Indigenous Peoples - Major thematic trends:. Generalized and multiple discrimination against indigenous peoples; Institutional, cultural, linguistic, economic and geographic barriers to access to justice;
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Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants and Racial Discrimination July 2015
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;
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.
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).
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;
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.
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.
Thematic reports The Situation of People of African Descent in the Americas (2011).
