E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 (b) Functioning of the Chaco Police Command with a view to protection of the Guaraní people and to progress in the freeing of individuals, families and communities; (c) Activities of the Human Rights Unit of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security in jurisdictions with a Guaraní population; (d) Activities of the Inter-ministerial Council for the Eradication of Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Practices; (e) Progress in community-based agrarian reform with respect to the freeing of individuals subjected to servitude or forced labour and of captive communities on haciendas, and to the recovery of community lands usurped by haciendas; (f) Plans for the freeing of Guaraní individuals and communities following the establishment of the new judicial institutions envisaged in the Constitution; (g) Applicability of the Penal Code to those who keep individuals and communities in conditions of forced labour or captivity; (h) Adoption of measures for the housing and health of the freed communities pending the recovery of their lands, and thereafter; (i) Adoption of specific measures to combat forced labour and the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and concerning the education and health of Guaraní children and adolescents; (j) Provision of legal services to individuals, families and communities, not only with a view to their freedom from servitude but also after their liberation. Comments on the dialogue 56. The representatives of the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia provided further information on the constitutional framework that hinders the State policy for elimination of the servitude of indigenous people and recovery of their land in accordance with the provisions of the community-based agrarian reform, reiterating the unwavering commitment of the current Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to that policy. The objective includes not only the definitive freeing of Guaraní individuals and communities, but also reconstitution of the territory of the Guaraní people. The Government representatives made it clear that the new institutions referred to in the questions were still at an early stage and that the new judicial institutions envisaged in the Constitution would be established in 2011, in accordance with the Constitution’s implementation schedule. Meanwhile, several important agrarian land titling cases related to the freeing of Guaraní individuals and communities are stalled before the old judicial institutions. 57. The representatives of APG, for their part, maintained that the process of eliminating forced labour and the captivity of communities was stalled owing to a lack of Government will concerning the necessary land titling and recovery policies. They stressed that that elimination would not be complete until there was a true reconstitution of the territory of the Guaraní nation. They said that the fundamental principle governing the entire process must be self-determination and that the essential mechanism must be the prior, free and informed consent of the Guaraní people itself. 10 10-36959

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