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V I S T O S; Y R E S U L T A N D O : cotejó PRIMERO.- Por oficio presentado en la Oficina de Certificación Judicial y Correspondencia de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación,…
OPINION CONSULTIVA RELATIVA AL CONVENIO 169 SOBRE PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS Y TRIBALES EN PAISES INDEPENDIENTES Y CONVENIO No. 169 (OIT) EXPEDIENTE 199-95 CORTE DE CONSTITUCIONALIDAD: Guatemala, dieciocho de mayo de mil novecientos noventa y cinco I. SOLICITUD DE OPINION CONSULTIVA: El…
Please click on the PDF link above to download the document. CONAIE case challenging Ecuador’s Mining Law (2009) From the petition: 5. Article 57, Section 17 of the Constitution establishes the right of indigenous communes, communities, peoples and nations to…
Please click on the .pdf link to download this document. The Norwegian Supreme Court found in favor of the Sami parties, holding that the Sami community had acquired collective ownership to a parcel of land through communal utilization since time…
Please click on the .pdf link to download this document. This case was originally brought by private landowners against the reindeer pasturing district to resolve whether Sami/Saami herders had the right to pasture reindeer on unenclosed private land. The Norwegian…
THE FACTS The applicants are 428 individuals from the Thule District in Greenland, and Hingitaq 53, a group that represents the interests of relocated Inughuit (the Thule Tribe) and their descendants in a legal action against the Danish Government. They…
(This is an excerpt taken from the Danish Supreme Court decision reproduced in the ECHR decision in Hingitaq 53 v. Denmark) In a judgment of 28 November 2003 the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the High Court’s judgment and held as…
(Amending part of the decision No. 08019 of 8 September 2000, in the sense that the invalidity of the Tender No. 1-97 LP to the company MKJ XPLORATION Inc., affects only land Blocks 2 and 4 in the territories that…
(failure to consult with indigenous people prior to issuing oil concession violates due process, respect for fundamental rights of the indigenous peoples concerned, leaving it impossible to be able to defend the natural environment of their land and their right…
(law constituting board overseeing CONAI is unconstitutional because it is impossible for indigenous peoples have adequate representation that will allow them to effectively influence decisions that will impact them) EXP. Nº 4320-P-92 Nº2253-96 SALA CONSTITUCIONAL DE LA CORTE SUPREMA DE…
