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organization that represents the Guaraní people in the Plurinational State of Bolivia,
to continue to give priority to combating these extremely serious human rights
violations as part of its broader programme of reconstitution of the Guaraní people.
67. The Permanent Forum encourages APG to continue to defend in a cooperative
and constructive manner, the principles of self-determination and free, prior and
informed consent in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples, which the Plurinational State of Bolivia has incorporated
into its domestic law and applied through its Constitution.
68. The Permanent Forum thanks the country team for endorsing the
recommendations contained in the report on the mission to the Plurinational State of
Bolivia and for taking responsibility for follow-up to those recommendations. With
regard to attempts at consensus-building among the parties involved in situations of
servitude and practices of forced labour, the Permanent Forum recalls that human
rights are inalienable and that they include the rights of indigenous peoples
acknowledged in the United Nations Declaration.
69. The Permanent Forum urges OHCHR in the Plurinational State of Bolivia to
continue and strengthen its monitoring of the human rights of the Guaraní people to
address as a matter of urgency the situation of the families and communities that are
subjected to forced labour and other forms of servitude and to report regularly and
publicly on developments in that situation. In the area of technical assistance, the
Permanent Forum urges OHCHR in the Plurinational State of Bolivia to strengthen
the human rights capacities of the Guaraní authorities in Alto Parapetí and other
districts where there are serious human rights violations.
70. The Permanent Forum undertakes to continue to monitor implementation of
the recommendations contained in its report with the cooperation of all parties to
this dialogue: the Government, the representatives of indigenous peoples and the
United Nations country team.
Follow-up summary report and recommendations of the Permanent Forum mission
to Paraguay
71. On 21 April 2010, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues held an in-depth
dialogue on the situation of indigenous peoples in the Chaco region with
representatives of the Government of Paraguay, officials of the Coordinating Body
for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples of Paraguay (CAPI) and
representatives of the United Nations country team in Paraguay. This dialogue
represents a new working method based on the mission report of the Permanent
Forum, which visited Paraguay in April 2009 (E/C.19/2010/5), and the responses of
the Government of Paraguay in its report to the ninth session of the Forum
(E/C.19/2010/12/Add.2). The Permanent Forum thanked the representatives of the
Government, indigenous peoples and the United Nations for their participation in
the dialogue.
72.
The Permanent Forum asked a number of questions on various issues, including:
(a) Respect for the principle of self-determination during the ongoing reform
of the Paraguayan Institute for Indigenous Affairs (INDI) and other agencies with
competence on indigenous issues, such as the Ethnic Rights Department of the
Office of the Public Prosecutor’s Office;
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