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Health and Social Welfare[,] take such actions as may be necessary to provide the
families of the [Sawhoyamaxa Community] with food and medical care during the
period of the judicial proceedings regardin[g] the legalization of the lands claimed as
part of the traditional habitat [of such Community].”123
73(64) On February 18, 2000 officials from the INDI visited the settlements of the
Sawhoyamaxa Community members, where they were able to verify “the precarious
conditions in which they live due to the lack of access to the territories they claim in
order to develop their traditional subsistence activities such as hunting, fishing and
gathering [,] the scarcity of drinking water as a result of the long drought caused by
lack of scarce rain in the area [, as well as] by the impossibility to grow any crops for
their subsistence” in the settlements where they currently live.124
73(65) As a follow-up on the foregoing report, officials from the INDI visited the
Community to deliver food to its members on March 15, 2000, September 8,
November 5, 2001, and January 31, April 5, July 19, July 29, and September 9,
2002.125 Likewise, on March 25, 2000 officials from the INDI visited the Community
and gave out school items, gathered data from the existing schools, distributed
medicines among the Community members and made a campaign to register
children and other interested persons at the Registry of Civil Status.126
73(66) During the second semester of 2005, officials from the Ministry of Public
Health and Social Welfare made three visits to the members of the Sawhoyamaxa
Community to provide medical care and vaccination, give educational talks, and
teach nursery procedures.127
73(67) Despite the fact that the Sawhoyamaxa Community was declared to be in a
state of emergency, its members continue living in precarious conditions, without
access even to the basic essential services.128
123
Cf. Executive Order No. 3789 issued by the President of the Republic of Paraguay on June 23,
1999, supra note 121.
124
Cf. report drawn by Mr. Claudio Miltos and Augusto Ortigoza, officials of the Instituto Paraguayo
del Indígena [Paraguayan Institute for Indigenous Affairs], on February 25, 2000 (case file of appendixes
to the answer to the complaint, folios 1640 to 1642).
125
Cf. report submitted by Mr. Edgar Pessoa and Juan Almeida to the President of the Council of the
INDI on September 10, 2001 and appendixes thereto; report submitted by Mr. Claudio Miltos to the
President of the Council of the INDI on November 5, 2001 and appendixes thereto; report submitted by
Mr. Christian Florentín to the President of the Council of the INDI of January 31, 2002 and appendixes
thereto; report submitted by Mr. Juan Almeida to the President of the Council of the INDI of April 5, 2002
and appendixes thereto; report submitted by Mr. Christian Florentín to the President of the Council of the
INDI of July 19, 2002 and appendixes thereto; report submitted by Mr. Christian Florentín to the President
of the Council of the INDI on July 29, 2002 and appendixes thereto, and report submitted by Mr. Christian
Florentín to the President of the Council of the INDI on September 9, 2002.
126
Cf. report submitted by Mr. Claudio Miltos to the President of the Council of the INDI on March
30, 2000 and appendixes thereto.
127
Cf. report submitted by the Coordinator of Indigenous Affairs of the Ministry of Public Health and
Social Welfare to the Minister on January 30, 2006 (case file on the merits, reparations, and costs, folio
1157).
128
Cf. statement rendered by Ms. Elsa Ayala before a public official whose acts command full faith
and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 119; statement rendered by Ms. Gladys Benítez-Galarza
before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 28;
statement rendered by Ms. Mariana Ayala before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit