E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 (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 10-36959 13

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