3 1. The State of Suriname violated the right to juridical personality of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples enshrined in Article 3 of the American Convention, in connection with Articles 1(1) and 2 of the same instrument, by failing to recognize their legal personality. 2. The State of Suriname violated the right to property established in Article 21 of the American Convention, in connection with Articles 1(1) and 2 of the Convention, to the detriment of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples by not adopting effective measures to recognize their collective property right to the lands, territories and natural resources they have traditionally and ancestrally occupied and used. 3. The State further violated the Kaliña and Lokono peoples’ property rights established in Article 21 of the American Convention, in connection with Articles 1(1) and 2 of the same instrument, by (i) granting land titles to non-indigenous individuals within Kaliña and Lokono traditional territory, (ii) establishing and maintaining the Wia Wia, Galibi and Wane Kreek Reserves, and (iii) granting a mining concession and authorizing mining activities inside their traditional territory, all without conducting a consultation process aimed at obtaining their free, prior and informed consent according to interAmerican standards. 4. The State of Suriname violated the right to judicial protection enshrined in Article 25 of the American Convention to the detriment of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples, by not providing them effective access to justice for the protection of their fundamental rights. 5. The IACHR does not have sufficient elements to determine whether the State has violated Article 13 of the American Convention to the detriment of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples. Accordingly, the IACHR request to the Court to recommended to the State of Suriname that it: 1. Take the necessary legislative and regulatory measures to recognize the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples as legal persons under Surinamese law; 2. Remove the legal provisions that impede protection of the right to property of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples and adopt in its domestic legislation, and through effective and fully informed consultations with the Kaliña and Lokono peoples and their members, legislative, administrative, and other measures needed to protect, through special mechanisms, the territory in which the Kaliña and Lokono peoples exercise their right to communal property, in accordance with their

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