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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