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customary land use practices, without prejudice to other tribal and
indigenous communities;
3. Refrain from acts that might give rise to activities of third parties,
acting with the State’s acquiescence or tolerance, that may affect the
right to property or integrity of the territory of the Kaliña and Lokono
peoples as established in this Report;
4. Review, through effective and fully informed consultations with
the Kaliña and Lokono peoples and their members and respecting
their customary law, the land titles, lease holds, and long-term leases
issued to non-indigenous persons, the terms of the mining activities
authorized inside the Wane Kreek Nature Reserve, and the terms of
the establishment and management of the Wia Wia, Galibi, and Wane
Kreek Nature Reserves, to determine the modifications that must be
made to the terms of these titles, lease holds, long-term leases,
concession and Nature Reserves to ensure respect for the property
rights of the Kaliña and Lokono over their ancestral lands, territories
and natural resources in accordance with their customs and
traditions;
5. Take all necessary steps, through effective and fully informed
consultations with the Kaliña and Lokono peoples and their members
and respecting their customary law, to delimit, demarcate and grant
collective title to the Kaliña and Lokono peoples over the lands and
territories that they have traditionally occupied and used;
6. Take the necessary steps to approve, in accordance with
Suriname’s constitutional procedures and the provisions of the
American Convention, such legislative and other measures as may be
needed to provide judicial protections and give effect to the collective
and individual rights of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples in relation to
the territory they have traditionally occupied and used.
7. Redress individually and collectively the consequences of the
violation of the aforementioned rights. Especially, consider the
damages caused to the members of the Kaliña and Lokono peoples as
a result of the failure to grant them legal title of their ancestral
territory as well as the damages caused on the territory by the acts of
third parties.
Moreover, the IACHR considers that the instant case raises questions of interAmerican public order.
First, the instant case reveals a structural problem of the lack of recognition, in the
domestic legislation, of the juridical personality and of the collective property
rights of indigenous peoples in Suriname. Another component of this issue is the