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(b) Potential recovery of the lands of indigenous communities that were
usurped by the current owners, who acquired them without the need for a purchase
contract or through forced expropriation;
(c) Potential use of the rural land registry for purposes of land titling and
recovery of community land without placing a prohibitive burden on the public
coffers;
(d) Activities of the Inter-ministerial Council for the Eradication of
Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Practices;
(e) The work of the Inter-Agency Commission for the Enforcement of
Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Recommendations
of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights;
(f) Coordination between the national programme for indigenous peoples
(PRONAPI) and INDI and the work of PRONAPI;
(g) The work of the Commission on Labour Rights and the Prevention of
Forced Labour under its plan of action to combat forced labour;
(h) Participation of indigenous peoples in INDI and in the new bodies
mentioned above;
(i) Fulfilment by the Office of the Public Prosecutor of its constitutional
mandate to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, especially in connection with
the specific provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure on “punishable acts
relating to indigenous peoples”;
(j) Concrete action by the political, administrative and judicial authorities of
the Chaco region aimed at combating forced labour and ensuring the recovery of
community land;
(k) Specific measures taken in order to protect indigenous children in the
indigenous communities of the Chaco region under the current conditions;
(l) Potential development of coordinated international policies, particularly
with the Plurinational State of Bolivia, with a view to the freeing of individuals and
the recovery of indigenous peoples’ land in the joint Chaco region.
Comments on the dialogue
73. The representative of the Government of Paraguay provided further
information on the constitutional guarantees of private property that are hindering
the development of land titling policies with a view to freeing individuals and
rebuilding communities. In any event, he believed that the impending creation of a
rural land registry could provide an opportunity for such titling. He spoke about the
work of the new institutions, which is still at an early stage, and particularly that of
the Commission responsible for implementing, at last, the resolutions of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning the indigenous communities of
the Chaco region. He stressed the failure of Congress to cooperate in the
development of an indigenous land recovery policy and the problems that this posed
for the Government.
74. The representative of CAPI, for his part, acknowledged the effort that the
Government was making to promote policies for the recognition and compensation
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