A/HRC/30/41/Add.1 compliance with regulations governing indigenous rights. Offences involving members of indigenous peoples are to be immediately submitted to this Directorate. 10 30. Paraguay has undertaken to apply the Brasilia Regulations Regard ing Access to Justice for Vulnerable People, which include indigenous peoples within its definition of vulnerable groups. 11 The measures adopted to this end include the provision of indigenous interpreters during legal proceedings, although, as acknowledged by the Supreme Court itself, progress in this connection has been slow to materialize. The Human Rights Directorate of the Supreme Court has launched various activities aimed at harmonizing customary law and ordinary law and is providing training for judg es and legal officials about the rights of indigenous peoples and awareness -raising opportunities in this regard. Existing initiatives relating to indigenous peoples need to be strengthened and consolidated in order to bring about the necessary changes in the legal system. 31. Notwithstanding these important initiatives, access to justice continues to be severely limited for the country’s indigenous populations, and substantive structural and procedural problems remain. The Special Rapporteur has learned of various contradictory decisions that have been issued by different courts. This situation not only undermines legal certainty and clarity for all parties involved, but also hinders the effective exercise of rights, particularly indigenous land rights. Inf ormation has also been received that reveals that racist and discriminatory attitudes remain deeply embedded, especially in courts of first instance and provincial courts, and that there is a lack of familiarity with international human rights standards an d the judgements of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Some public prosecutors disregard the observations of the Ethnic Rights Directorate, and there are not enough public defenders to ensure access to justice for indigenous peoples. The Special Rap porteur has noted with concern that indigenous peoples’ own legal systems are rarely promoted or validated as suitable mechanisms for the administration of justice, nor are they coordinated with State legal systems as provided for by international instrume nts. The Special Rapporteur was informed that, on 22 July 2015, as part of the Government’s efforts to promote and comply with the provisions of the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) regarding customary law, the Human Rights Directorate of the Supreme Court convened the first meeting for legal officials concerning the process to be used for validating curricular proposals designed to uphold indigenous rights. Participants pledged to develop proposals concerning the curricula to be used in training civil servants and judges in this area. The Special Rapporteur supports this type of training and urges the authorities to ensure that it continues. 2. Access to redress 32. The Special Rapporteur received numerous reports about the l ack of redress in cases where the human rights of indigenous peoples have been violated. She has learned, for example, about the situation of the Mbyá Guaraní communities in the Caazapá, Itapúa and Misiones departments, who were moved from their lands in t he 1970s — without adequate compensation — to make way for the building of the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam. By way of redress, the Mbyá Guaraní organizations have called for the transfer of title to some 50,000 hectares of what remains of the forests that were formerly part of their ancestral lands, which they call Tekoha Guasú. In 1992, the Secretariat for the Environment made those lands part of the San Rafael National Park without prior consultation with the indigenous communities in the area. __________________ 10 11 GE.15-13734 Resolution No. 3918/09. Approved in 2008 at the Fourteenth Meeting of the Ibero -American Judicial Summit. 9/24