E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 58. For its part, the representatives of the country team said that the mission report of the Permanent Forum had had a positive impact. They described the initiatives and activities of the United Nations agencies and programmes aimed at implementation of the respective recommendations and explained how the country team planned to facilitate coordination among the various parties involved in situations of servitude in the Chaco region. 59. Last, the representatives of the Government responded by stating that they shared the concerns expressed by the representatives of APG and that they would continue implementing the recommendations in accordance with the Constitution and all the relevant statutes that were already in effect throughout the country, prioritizing dialogue and consensus-building. Recommendations 60. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Plurinational State of Bolivia should speed up implementation of the constitutional provisions regarding the freeing of individuals, families and communities in the light of the fact that forced labour and servitude are serious human rights violations that must be addressed with great urgency. 61. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Plurinational State of Bolivia should consider implementing the resolutions of the National Agrarian Reform Institute regarding the revocation of land titles on grounds of servitude in all matters affecting not only the freedom of individuals, but also the recovery of land for communities, thereby preventing legal proceedings from stalling a reform process that defends, promotes and protects human rights. 62. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Plurinational State of Bolivia should continue to link its policies for the freeing of individuals and the recovery of lands in the Chaco region with a view to the territorial reconstitution of the Guaraní people, which both the Government and APG consider the ultimate objective. 63. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Plurinational State of Bolivia continue the implementation of specific policies in the areas of housing, health and education in order to benefit the freed communities, paying particular attention to those who have been subjected to servitude, and especially children and adolescents. 64. The Permanent Forum welcomes the inclusion of the Office of the Deputy Minister for Decolonization, together with other competent institutions, in the Government’s implementation of measures designed to eliminate servitude and contemporary forms of slavery. Its cooperation will ensure a broader and more comprehensive and effective strategy. 65. The Permanent Forum calls on the Office of the Attorney General and the district prosecutors’ offices in the Departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija to conduct criminal investigations into the events described by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in its report to this session of the Forum and in the subsequent report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 66. The Permanent Forum encourages APG to continue to give priority to its endeavours to eliminate the servitude and contemporary forms of slavery to which families and communities in Santa Cruz, especially in Alto Parapetí, and in Chuquisaca, are subjected. The Permanent Forum encourages APG, as the 10-36959 11

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