99 it also acquiesces to the request to establish a health post, a school, drinking water supply and sanitary infrastructure for the Community, at the place where the State is able to establish said services, as close as possible to a provisional settlement. 220. The State added that insofar as possible it acquiesces [to the request to provide] medical care and education to the members of the Community, in accordance with existing educational and healthcare plans of the State. 221. In view of the above, the Court orders that, as long as the Community remains landless, given its special state of vulnerability and the impossibility of resorting to its traditional subsistence mechanisms, the State must supply, immediately and on a regular basis, sufficient drinking water for consumption and personal hygiene of the members of the Community; it must provide regular medical care and appropriate medicine to protect the health of all persons, especially children, the elderly and pregnant women, including medicine and adequate treatment for worming of all members of the Community; it must supply food in quantities, variety and quality that are sufficient for the members of the Community to have the minimum conditions for a decent life; it must provide latrines or any other type of appropriate toilets for effective and healthy management of the biological waste of the Community; and it must supply sufficient bilingual material for appropriate education of the students at the school in the current settlement of the Community. c) Adapting domestic legislation to the American Convention 222. In the instant case, the Court found that Paraguay violated Articles 8, 21 and 25 of the Convention in combination with Articles 1(1) and 2 of that same Convention, for lack of effectiveness of national legislation to satisfy the territorial rights of the victims, set forth in the Paraguayan Constitution. 223. The State pointed out in this regard that it is necessary for a new law to address the situation of the indigenous peoples whose need for a land of their own also has the connotation of being necessary to develop their specific manner of life. 224. And the State added that it also acquiesces to the request to implement legislation that includes an effective and rapid recourse to elucidate situations of clashing rights, as in the case of the Yakye Axa and other communities of the Enxet Lengua people, for which it will conduct consultations with the direct beneficiaries, the indigenous peoples, pursuant to the provisions of [ILO] Agreement [No.] 169, and once a consensus has been attained regarding the bill, it will be processed before the Legislative […]. 225. The Court deems it necessary for the State to guarantee effective exercise of the rights set forth in its Constitution and in its legislation, pursuant to the American Convention. Therefore, the State, within a reasonable term, must adopt in its domestic legislation, pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the American Convention, such legislative, administrative and any other measures as may be necessary to create an effective mechanism for indigenous peoples’ claims to ancestral lands, such that it makes their right to property effective, taking into account their customary law, values, practices, and customs.

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