SECTION FIVE
Social, economic, and property rights
▼Article XXV.
Traditional forms of property and cultural survival.
Right to land, territory, and resources
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and
strengthen their distinctive spiritual, cultural, and
material relationship with their lands, territories, and
resources and to uphold their responsibilities to preserve them for themselves and for future generations.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands,
territories and resources which they have traditionally
owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
3. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use,
develop and control the lands, territories and
resources that they possess by reason of traditional
ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as
well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
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