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Education
84.
The Special Rapporteur recommends:
(a) The formulation, adoption and implementation of a national public
policy on indigenous education that gives effect to indigenous peoples’ right to
education, which includes their right to establish their own educational systems in
their own languages. The policy should also provide for special measures to
ensure access to the general education system, especially at the secondary and
tertiary levels;
(b) The implementation of a review of the curricula used in the general
education system in order to ensure that they promote interculturalism and
contribute to a better understanding of and due respect for indigenous peoples
and their history, heritage, culture and rights.
Health
85. The Special Rapporteur recommends the adoption, without delay, of a new
law on health care for indigenous peoples and of all the administrative and
budgetary measures necessary for its implementation so that indigenous peoples
may fully enjoy their right to health, which includes the right to the protection of
their traditional health practices, the use of a suitable intercultural approach in
health-care facilities and the elimination of discriminatory practices in healthcare systems.
Indigenous women
86. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government work with
indigenous women to compile disaggregated data on all aspects of their situation,
including violence against women, women’s socioeconomic status, general and
sexual and reproductive health, trafficking in persons and other issues, and that
it adopt the necessary targeted policies for indigenous women.
Peoples in voluntary isolation
87. The Special Rapporteur recommends the adoption of the necessary
measures for ensuring the survival of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation
and eliminating the risks of unwanted contact that appear to exist at present,
taking into account the Guidelines for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in
Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact in the Amazon Basin, El Gran Chaco and
the Eastern Region of Paraguay. Due attention should be paid to the situation of
groups in initial contact.
C.
Specific recommendations
88. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government of Paraguay
accelerate the process of according recognition to the ancestral lands claimed by
the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people and that all private property owners in the area
cooperate with the Government and, in good faith, engage in dialogue w ith the
Ayoreo Totobiegosode and representatives of their institutions in order to settle
this claim justly and definitively.
89. Until such time as an equitable procedure for land title adjudication has
been conducted, the State should take whatever measures are necessary to
prevent further violations of the rights of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode in relation to
their lands, territories and resources, including by means of the suspension of any
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