4 deposits) located in the lands that they claim; however, it is used both for human consumption and for personal hygiene, and it is not protected from human contact.” 11. The State of Paraguay, in turn, in its reply to the application, stated that it acquiesced to the request to establish a healthcare center, a school, drinking water supply and sanitary infrastructure for the community, wherever the State can establish said services as close as possible to the provisional settlement. Also, that “insofar as possible it acquiesces (to the request to provide) medical care and education in accordance with the State’s education and health programs.” 12. The latter point gave rise to the Court’s decision, with regard to reparations, to order that “…as long as the Community remains landless, given its special state of vulnerability and its inability to resort to its traditional subsistence mechanisms, the State must provide sufficient drinking water for consumption and personal hygiene of the members of the Community; it must provide medical care on a regular basis and adequate medicines to protect all persons’ health, especially that of the children, the elderly, and pregnant women, including medicine and adequate treatment for deworming of all members of the Community; it must provide sufficient food, in appropriate variety and quantities, for all members of the Community to have minimum conditions required for a decent life; it must provide latrines or any other appropriate type of sanitary facilities for effective management of the Community’s biological wastes, in a manner consistent with public health…” 13. Both the partial acquiescence by the State and the reparations ordered by the Court show beyond a doubt that there has been and currently is a lack of basic services, including drinking water, indispensable for the health and life of the members of the Community. Therefore, it is not difficult to infer that the death of children, among others: a two year old, due to dysentery; a six year old due to dysentery and sores; a one year old, due to meningitis; a two year old, due to tetanus; a one year old, due to bronchitis; a twelve-day old baby, due to bronchitis; a two year old, due to bronchitis, were due to their precarious living conditions. 14. Article 19 of the American Convention on Human Rights establishes that “Every minor child has the right to the measures of protection required by his condition as a minor on the part of his family, society, and the state.” The Convention on the Rights of the Child, whose provisions are part of the domestic law of the

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