A/HRC/11/11 page 14 subjected to a system of servitude that prevails in agricultural and/or stockbreeding haciendas in exchange for paltry wages. According to International Labour Office estimates, between 5,100 and 7,200 Guaraní are subjected to such servile arrangements. 52. As a result of the efforts undertaken by various NGOs and those of the Roman Catholic Church, the situation of these Guaraní families began to be denounced in the late 1990s, and projects were launched to free families through the purchase of land that they could work for their own benefit and through the implementation of community-based development projects. Guaraní organizations have also taken the initiative of denouncing this situation. The Special Rapporteur visited one of the freed Guaraní communities and was able to learn first-hand about their present and past situation, while noting that there were still many instances in which this indentured population have yet to be freed. 53. In November 2005, following an exhaustive investigation, the Ombudsman found that there had been violations of labour rights, the right to land, the right to access to justice and other human rights of the captive Guaraní. In response to these cases, in October 2007, the executive branch established the Inter-ministerial Council for the Eradication of Servitude, Forced Labour and Other Similar Arrangements. The 2007-2008 Transitional Inter-ministerial Plan for the Guaraní People is designed to guarantee the rights of the Guaraní held captive in the Bolivian Chaco, give impetus to the territorial reconstitution of the Guaraní nation and promote development projects. In December 2007, the Government granted the Guaraní people of Chiquisaca (the communities of Huacareta, Ingle, Machareti and Muyupampa) 180,000 hectares of land under the Community-Based Agrarian Reform Renewal Act, which stipulates that evidence of a situation of servitude is cause to proceed to the expropriation of the lands in question by the State and, subsequently, to transfer their title to the indigenous communities. 54. The situation of the rights of the Guaraní held captive in the Bolivian Chaco was the subject of a recommendation by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that was included in the report on its seventh session (21 April-2 May 2008). In it, the Permanent Forum states that it “has learned from indigenous peoples’ communications, which have been corroborated by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, that in the Chaco region there are Guaraní communities in a practical state of slavery” (E/C.19/2008/13, para. 156). The Permanent Forum also states that it “strongly supports the efforts of the current Government of Bolivia ... to discontinue this enslaving practice and return indigenous lands to their lawful owners, the Guaraní themselves”. G. Social and development policies 55. In order to promote food security and sovereignty and to replace the existing mode of development that is based largely on commercial and industrial agriculture intended for export, the Government launched the National Development Plan, a central component of which is the “Rural, farming and forestry revolution”. One of the aims of this policy is to change the structure of land tenure so as to avoid unsustainable uses and inequitable distribution of land. 56. It is worth noting that initiatives to promote the local development of the indigenous communities have also included efforts made by community enterprises, of which several successful examples may be mentioned: the National Quinoa Producers Association (ANAPQUI), which is active in the highlands of the departments of Oruro, Potosí and La Paz;