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OEA/Ser.L/V/II.108
Doc. 62
20 October 2000
Original: Spanish
THE
HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION OF THE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
I.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE RIGHTS
OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE UNDER THE
INTER-AMERICAN
SYSTEM
1.
Background on inter-American Indigenous issues
2.
The inter-American system of human rights and indigenous rights
A.
The Inter-American Legal and Institutional Framework
B.
The Protection Mechanisms of the
Inter-American
System of Human Rights
C.
The individual petition system
D.
Request to states for
precautionary or provisional
measures
CHAPTER
II.
PREPARATORY DOCUMENTS FOR THE DRAFT
AMERICAN
DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
1.
Justification and recommendation to the
General Assembly of the OAS
on the preparation
of an Inter-American
instruments on this matter
2.
General Assembly Resolution Nº 1022/89 ordering
in directive 13 the
preparation of a legal instrument
3.
Methodology for preparing an inter-American legal
instrument on the human
rights of indigenous peoples
4.
Questionnaire sent by the IACHR in April of 1992 to the member states
and
more than 300 indigenous and international organizations
5.
Report on the first round of consultations
concerning the future
inter-American legal
instrument on indigenous
rights
6.
First draft consultation for an American Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
sent by the IACHR to member
States (1995) the basis for
consultations with
National and regional indigenous
groups
7.
IACHR presentation to the General Assembly of its
draft American Declaration of
the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples and background
documents (1997)
8.
Draft American Declaration of the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples
9.
General Assembly resolutions on the draft
Declaration 1997, 1998 and 1999
CHAPTER
III. DOCTRINE
AND JURISPRUDENCE OF THE IACHR
ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
1.
Rights to life, personal liberty, and humane treatment
2.
Right to property
3.
Rights of the family
4.
Discriminatory military recruitment of indigenous men,
in violation of the rights to
personal liberty, protection
of human dignity, and freedom
of movement
5.
Right to Judicial Protection
6.
The concept of collective rights in relation to human rights
A.
Collective rights in
individual cases involving indigenous
populations
B.
Collective rights in the
Proposed American
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
ANEXOS
1.
Report on Case Nº7615 “Yanomami vs. Brasil”
Resolution Nº12/85 (March 5,
1985)
2. Judgment
of the Inter-American Court regarding the reparations in Case Aloeboetoe et
al. vs. Suriname
3.
Friendly Settlement Report Nº 90/99 in
Case Nº11.713 “Exnet vs.
Paraguay”
4.
Report Nº49/99 of Case Nº11.610
“Loren Laroye Riebe Star y
otros” (Mexico)
5.
Report Nº31/99 of Case Nº11.763
“Masacre de Plan de Sánchez”
(Guatemala)
6.
Report Nº26/00 of Case Nº11.821
“Village of Moiwana”
(Suriname)
7.
Report Nº99/99 of Case Nº11.140
“Mary and Carrie Dann”
(United States)
8.
Report Nº36/00 of Case Nº11.101
“Massacre Caloto” (Colombia)
9.
Press Release Nº5/99, Murder in the
Indigenous community "Menominee" (Colombia)
CHAPTER
IV SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN
CERTAIN COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS (RESPECTIVE CHAPTERS
OF OF GENERAL REPORTS)
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