98 Electoral Council, without any restrictions concerning the matter appealed against; (c) To adopt the legislative, administrative and any other type of measure necessary to guarantee the participation of the indigenous people of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua in the electoral processes, according to their customary law, values, practices and customs; and (d) To adopt the necessary measures to avoid a recurrence of similar facts in the future. 250. Arguments of the representatives of the victims They requested the Court to order the State: (a) To acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the violations committed; this should be done orally, translated into Miskito, Sumo, Rama and English and published and distributed among the indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast; (b) To buy time on a radio station to acknowledge publicly the human rights violations committed, to make an undertaking to avoid their repetition and to read “the facts and the concluding part of the judgment delivered by the Court,” an also “to establish a fund so that the communities can disseminate the content of this communication in the different languages […] by radio”; (c) To publish the judgment of the Court in the two newspapers with the most widespread circulation in the country, and in Nicaragua’s official gazette; (d) To modify the requirements for participating in the elections so as to ensure that the indigenous communities can accede to public office through their representatives, selected according to their customary law, practices, values and customs; (e) To modify its domestic laws so that organizations can present candidates in the regions in which they are established; (f) To adopt legislative measures that “ensure the representation of the indigenous communities in the different power structures,” in consultation with these communities and respecting their forms of organization. The State should establish electoral districts that take into account the indigenous territories and establish an “ethnic quota” in favor of the indigenous people in the Legislative Assembly; (g) To adopt affirmative measures in order to promote and guarantee the political participation of the indigenous people, after consulting with them; (h) To enact measures that allow the resolutions of the Supreme Electoral Council to be appealed before a judicial body, whether or not they concern electoral matters; and

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