A/HRC/30/41/Add.1 I. Introduction 1. The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli Corpuz, visited Paraguay from 21 to 28 November 2014 at the invitation of the Government. The purpose of the Special Rapporteur ’s visit was to evaluate the human rights situation of indigenous peoples in the country in the light of international human rights standards and, on that basis, to provide the Government with comments and recommendations designed to support the full implementation of those standards. 2. In the capital, Asunción, the Special Rapporteur met with Supreme Court judges, the Ministers of Justice, Labour, Employment and Social Security, Women, and Public Health and Welfare, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Industry and Trade, Education and Culture, and the Interior and representatives of the Secretariat for Social Action, the Secretariat for the Environment and the National Institute for Indigenous Affairs (INDI). The Special Rapporteur also met with members of the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples and representatives of the international donor community, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector. 3. The Special Rapporteur held a working meeting with representatives of indigenous organizations in the country (see the list given in the appendix) and separate meetings with the Federation for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples (FAPI) and indigenous women. 4. The Special Rapporteur attended various meetings in Asunción and visited the city of Filadelfia (Boquerón Department in the Western Region (the Chaco)) and the Mbyá Guaraní community of Cheiro Ara Poty (Caaguazú Department, Eastern Region). 5. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Paraguay for its close cooperation, which allowed her to do her work in a free and independent manner, and for the copious information provided by the institutions with whose representatives she met. She thanks INDI, in particular, for its contribution to her work. She would also like to express her gratitude to the representatives of indigenous peoples, NGOs and civil society and to the United Nations country team for their help in preparing for and managing her mission. She is especially grateful to the Human Rights Adviser of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Paraguay and her team. The Special Rapporteur is most grateful for the hospitality shown and information provided by the indigenous peoples with whom she dealt. II. Indigenous peoples of Paraguay 6. According to the results of the Third National Census of Indigenous Peoples, in 2012 there were 115,944 indigenous persons in Paraguay (some 2 per cent of the population) living in 13 departments in both the Eastern Region and the Chaco, as well as the capital, Asunción. 1 The results of this census identify 19 indigenous peoples belonging to 5 linguistic families: Guaraní (Aché, Avá Guaraní, Mbya Guaraní, Paï Tavytera, Guaraní Ñandeva, Guaraní Occidental), Maskoy (Toba Maskoy, Enlhet Norte, Enxet Sur, Sanapaná, Angaité, Guaná), Mataco Mataguayo (Nivaclé, Maká, Manjui), Zambuco (Ayoreo, Yvytoso, Tomáraho) and Guaicurú (Qom). These people live in 493 communities and 218 villages or neighbourhoods, for a total of 711 __________________ 1 GE.15-13734 This is the total based on the national census of the n on-indigenous population and the Third National Census of Indigenous Peoples and Households. Censo de comunidades de los pueblos indígenas. Resultados finales 2012, Technical Planning Secretariat for Economic and Social Development, General Directorate for Statistics, Surveys and Censuses, April 2015. 3/24