scholarly journals Libre determinación y consulta como bases de los derechos fundamentales de los pueblos indígenas en la jurisprudencia del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos = Free determination and consultation as a basis of the fundamental rights of the indigenous peoples in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System

Author(s):  
Enrique Francisco Pasillas Pineda

RESUMEN: El presente trabajo propone un análisis de los Derechos Fundamentales de los pueblos indígenas a la luz de los principios internacionales de Libre Determinación y Consulta Previa, como fundantes y presupuestos de los demás Derechos Indígenas. En consecuencia, se analiza el Derecho a la Consulta, que debe ser previa, libre, informada, de buena fe, culturalmente adecuada y con el propósito de obtener el consentimiento; donde todas éstas características son el estándar mínimo a cumplir en cualquier proyecto de desarrollo o extractivo que afecte a pueblos indígenas, por lo que debe explicarse también el extractivismo al interior de los estados-nación y su modus operandi, que ha provocado la existencia de zonas y regiones que algunos autores caracterizan como “estados de excepción” o estados de “de no-derecho”. El análisis propuesto contrasta las bases mencionadas con algunos casos llevados ante la jurisdicción del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, cuya última fase descansa en las sentencias de la Corte IDH.ABSTRACT: The present paper proposes an analysis of the Fundamental Rights of the indigenous peoples in the light of the international principles of Free Determination and Prior Consultation, as foundations and budgets of the other Indigenous Rights. Consequently, the Right to Consultation is analyzed, which must be prior, free, informed, in good faith, culturally appropriate and with the purpose of obtaining consent; where all these characteristics are the minimum standard to be met in any development or extractive project that affects indigenous peoples, so the extractivism within the nation-states and its modus operandi, which has caused the existence of zones and regions that some authors characterize as "states of exception" or "non-right" states. The proposed analysis contrasts the mentioned basis with some cases brought before the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights System, whose last phase rests on the judgments of the Inter-American Court.PALABRAS CLAVE: Libre determinación y consulta, Derechos Fundamentales, pueblos indígenas. KEYWORDS: Free determination and consultation, Fundamental Rights, indigenous peoples.

Author(s):  
Ferran ARMENGOL FERRER

LABURPENA: Egonkortasuneko Mekanismo Europarrean (EME) baldintzapena nola aplikatzen den aztertuko dugu artikulu honetan, Europar Batasunaren esparruan aitortuta dauden oinarrizko eskubideen ikuspegitik. Horretarako, giza eskubideen alorrean nazioarteko hitzarmenak aplikatzearen alde egin duten jarrera doktrinalak hartu dira erreferentziatzat, Nazioarteko Diru Funtsak (NDF) eta nazioarteko beste finantza-erakunde batzuek garapen bidean diren herrialdeekiko operazioetan txertatu duten baldintzapenari muga jartzeko. Europar Batasunaren eremuan 2009-2010 urteetako zor publikoaren krisiari erantzuna emateko sortu diren organismoek eta, batez ere, EMEk (euro eremuan egonkortasuna ziurtatzeko organismoak,) ordea, egiturazko elementu gisa sartu dute baldintzapena haien operazioetan, NDFaren antzeko filosofia hartuta, hau da, zuhurtziaren bitartez lortu nahi dute hazkunde ekonomikoa, eta, horren ondorioz, oinarrizko eskubide batzuk ezin izan dira behar bezala gauzatu. Horrek mahai gainean jartzen du kontu bat, ea politika horiek bateragarri ote diren Europar Batasunaren helburu eta printzipioekin; hasiera batean «zuzenbidezko komunitatea» esamoldeaz definitu baitzuten EB, eta giza eskubideetan oinarrituta eraiki. Justizia Auzitegiak horri buruz idatzi zuen lehenengo epai —goiztiarrak— (Pringle epaiak), ordea, ez zuen zehaztu EMEren baldintzapenak Europar Batasunaren xede eta printzipioekin eta giza eskubideekiko errespetuarekin bat egiten ote duen. Hala ere, badirudi irizpide hori aldatzen ari dela, Ledra Advertising-en duela gutxi eman den epaiaren harira; izan ere, jabetzarako eskubideari dei egiteko atea ireki du, baldintzapena ezartzearen ondorioz eragindako kalteengatiko ordaina eskatzeari dagokionez. Hortaz, EME Europako Diru Funtsean eraldatuta bakarrik heldu ahalko zaie oinarrizko eskubideei, EME erkideko erakunde gisa eratzen bada, baldintzapenaren ondorio kaltegarriak geldiarazteari edo arintzeari begira. Are gehiago, Europako Diru Funtsean baldintzapena judizialki kontrolatzea erreferentea izan liteke nazioarteko beste finantza-erakunde batzuentzat. RESUMEN: El presente artículo analiza la aplicación de la condicionalidad en el Mecanismo Europeo de Estabilidad (MEDE) desde la perspectiva de los derechos fundamentales reconocidos en el ámbito de la Unión Europea. A tal efecto, se toman como referencia las posiciones doctrinales que han venido defendiendo la aplicación de los convenios internacionales en materia de derechos humanos como límite a la condicionalidad introducida por el FMI y otras instituciones financieras internacionales en sus operaciones con los países en desarrollo. Los organismos creados en el ámbito de la Unión Europea para dar respuesta a la crisis de la Deuda pública de 2009-10, y de modo singular el MEDE, organismo creado para garantizar la estabilidad de la zona euro, han introducido, sin embargo, la condicionalidad como un elemento estructural en sus operaciones, con una filosofía parecida a la del FMI, es decir, conseguir el crecimiento económico a partir de la austeridad, con lo que se ha visto perjudicado el ejercicio de diversos derechos fundamentales. Ello plantea la cuestión de la compatibilidad de tales políticas con los objetivos y principios de la Unión Europea, definida en su día como «Comunidad de Derecho» y fundada sobre los valores de los derechos humanos. La primera —y temprana— sentencia dictada al respecto por el Tribunal de Justicia (sentencia Pringle) dejó, sin embargo, en el aire la cuestión de la compatibilidad de la condicionalidad del MEDE con los objetivos y principios de la Unión Europea y el respeto de los derechos humanos. Parece, no obstante, que este criterio tiende a modificarse a partir del reciente fallo en Ledra Advertising, que ha abierto la puerta a invocar el derecho de propiedad para ser indemnizado por los daños causados por la aplicación de la condicionalidad. Con todo, será a partir de la transformación del MEDE en el Fondo Monetario Europeo, si éste se constituye como institución comunitaria, como puede hacerse efectiva la invocación de los derechos fundamentales para frenar o mitigar los efectos perjudiciales de la condicionalidad. Más aún, el control judicial de la condicionalidad en el FME podría servir como referente para otras instituciones financieras internacionales. ABSTRACT: This article analyses the application of conditionality within the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) from the perspective of the fundamental rights recognized within the EU. To this end, we take as a reference the doctrinal positions that have been defending the application of international conventions on human rights as a limit to the conditionality introduced by the IMF and another financial international institutions in their operations with developing countries. The public agencies created within the EU in order to meet the demands of the public debt crisis of 2009-10, and specifically the ESM, a body created to guarantee the Euro zone’s stability, have nonetheless introduced the conditionality as a structural element in their operations, with a philosophy comparable to that of the IMF, i.e. to achieve economic growth from austerity, thus impairing the exercise of several fundamental rights. That raises the question of compatibility of those policies with the objectives and principles of the EU, defined one day as a «community of law» and founded upon the values of fundamental rights. The first —and early— judgement delivered on this ground by the European Court of Justice (Pringle case) left nevertheless in the air the compatibility of the conditionality of ESM with the objectives and principles of the EU and with the respect to human rights. It seems however that this criteria tends to be modified by the recent judgment Ledra Advertising that opened the door to invoke the right to property in order to be compensated by damages caused as a consequence of conditionality. Even so, it will be after the transformation of the ESM into an European Monetary Fund, if this is constituted as a Community institution, that invoking fundamental rights shall be effective in order to stop or mitigate the adverse effects of conditionality. What is more, the judicial control over conditionality within the EMF might serve as a reference for other international financial institutions.


Author(s):  
Barbara Cosens

Indigenous rights to water follow diverse trajectories across the globe. In Asia and Africa even the concept of indigeneity is questioned and peoples with ancient histories connected to place are defined by ethnicity as opposed to sovereign or place-based rights, although many seek to change that. In South America indigenous voices are rising. In the parts of the globe colonized by European settlement, the definition of these rights has been in a continual state of transition as social norms evolve and indigenous capacity to assert rights grow. From the point of European contact, these rights have been contested. They have evolved primarily through judicial rulings by the highest court in the relevant nation-state. For those nation-states that do address whether indigenous rights to land and water exist, the approach has ranged from the 18th- and 19th-century doctrines of terra nullius (the land (and resources) belonged to no one) to a recognized right of “use and occupancy” that could be usurped under the doctrine of “discovery” by the conquering power. In the 20th and 21st centuries the evolution of the recognition of indigenous rights remains uneven, reflecting the values, judicial doctrine, and degree to which the contested water resource is already developed in the relevant nation-state. Thus, indigenous rights to water range from the recognition of cultural and spiritual rights that would have been in existence at the time of European contact, to inclusion of subsistence rights, rights sufficient for economic development, rights for homeland purposes, and rights as guardian for a water resource. At the forefront in this process of recognition is the right of indigenous peoples as sovereign to control, allocate, develop and protect their own water resources. This aspirational goal is reflected in the effort to create a common global understanding of the rights of indigenous peoples through declaration and definition of the right of self-determination articulated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-102
Author(s):  
Jessika Eichler

AbstractEver since Evo Morales Ayma became Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2006 and the promulgation of a human-rights-enhancing Constitution (2009) thereafter, indigenous peoples’ rights were gradually recognised. Yet, with the increasing demand for natural resources, indigenous communities have been adversely affected by the state's neo-extractivist policies. While global indigenous rights norms protect their fundamental rights, legal-implementation processes in the country's lowlands reveal dilemmas in terms of the value of laws in practice as well as its reinterpretation on the ground. Namely, in the communities, different positions and camps have emerged in terms of the role and functions of participatory rights. Despite the potential of the latter in strengthening collective-rights regimes and self-determination, community leaders, advisers and other members report how such processes fracture and weaken decision-making mechanisms and human rights claims.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Lehman

This article proposes that settler communities cannot teach or understand our shared intercultural history without listening to ideas presented by Indigenous communities about their own history in lands currently occupied by modern nation- -states. This history enables us to understand the power of the ethnographic gaze and its relation to The Doctrine of Discovery (1493), which extinguished Indigenous rights to lands and resources, rights later transferred to the modern nation- -states through the legal notion of “eminent domain”. These rights include the ownership of intangibles such as the image and storytelling through photography and film. Maori scholars Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Barry Barclay and Merata Mita are cited on knowledge production, copyright and image sovereignty to decolonise our understanding of the right to self-representation. The study includes a brief analysis of films that help decolonise an ethnographic gaze at these relationships, particularly the Brazilian documentary “O Mestre e o Divino” by Tiago Campos Torre (2013).Keywords: Indigenous peoples. Nation-state history. Film. Self- -determination.


Author(s):  
Ana Ximena Jacoby

Resumen: El derecho a la libre expresión tiene un alcance sumamente amplio. Incluye, entre otras, la manifestación de ideas y opiniones que otros pueden considerar profundamente ofensivas y perturbadoras. Por su naturaleza radical, este derecho suele entrar en colisión con otros derechos fundamentales, como el derecho a la honra, a la privacidad, al olvido, a la libertad religiosa o con las normas que resguardan la seguridad nacional o la circulación del “discurso de odio”. Estas tensiones, que atraviesan al derecho a la libre expresión, quedan frecuentemente manifiestas en fallos y posicionamientos de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. El presente trabajo se propone analizar las distintas perspectivas teóricas que subyacen a los posicionamientos de esta Corte en relación al “discurso del odio”. Como veremos, en los pronunciamientos de la Corte y los demás órganos que conforman el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos conviven, dentro de un marco liberal, distintas concepciones que van desde los principios liberales clásicos hasta posturas más cercanas al liberalismo igualitario. Palabras clave: Discurso de odio, libertad de expresión, Sistema Interamericano de Derechos HumanosAbstract: The freedom of speech has an extremely wide scope. It namely preserves the free expression of ideas and opinions that others might find profoundly offensive and disturbing. Due to its radical nature, this freedom can either collide with other fundamental rights, such as the right to honor, to privacy, to oblivion or to religious freedom, or with certain rules that preserve the national security or the circulation of “hate speech”. These tensions crossing the freedom of speech are frequently expressed in judgments and declarations of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights. This work seeks to account for the different theoretical perspectives undermining the arguments presented by this Court regarding “hate speech”. As to be seen, different conceptions within a liberal framework coexist in the declarations issued by the Court and rest of bodies that comprise the Interamerican System of Human Rights, ranging from those that follow classic liberal principles to more egalitarian liberalism-oriented positions. Keywords: Hate speech, freedom of speech, Inter-American Human Rights System.     


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Raúl Canosa Usera

Resumen:El artículo pretende analizar la evolución de la protección de la integridad personal en España desde la aprobación de la Constitución de 1978 hasta el presente.En primer lugar, se aborda el contexto en el que la Constitución fue aprobada y las opciones que al constituyente se le abrían. Se destaca que por primera vez en España se reconocía un específico derecho a la integridad, lo que no es habitual, al lado de la tradicional prohibición de torturas y penas o tratos inhumanos o degradantes que arrancó ya con la constitución de 1812.Era necesario analizar la protección de la integridad en el Derecho Internacional de los derechos humanos que España ha incorporado a su Orden jurídico, así como la Carta de Derechos fundamentales de la Unión Europea Que sí proclama el derecho a la integridad. En este sentido es destacable como el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos ha inferido el derecho a la integridad de la forma más generosa a través de una interpretación evolutiva del derecho a la vida privada.Sin embargo, no es fácil determinar ni cuál es el bien jurídico protegido ni cuáles las posiciones iusfundamentales que contiene; es decir, qué se protege y cuáles son las situaciones de la vida cuya vulneración el titular del derecho puede defender, llegado el caso, activando la labor tutelar de los tribunales. Por ello ha sido fundamental también el intenso desarrollo legislativo que lo ha concretado en diversos sectores del ordenamiento así como las medidas de protección en favor de los más vulnerables.Summary:1. The 1978 Context in which the right to integrity was recognized. 1.1 Overview of International Law and Foreign Constitutional Law. 1.2 The options of the Constituent Power in the process of drafting Article 15 of the Spanish Constitution. 2. The evolutionary interpretation of international law. 2.1 The extension of the protection field of Article 3 ECHR. 2.2 The inclusion of contents of the right to integrity into the right to respect for private life. a) Right to a criminal protection of the integrity. b) Right to authorize or refuse medical treatments. c) Right to sexual and reproductive life. The problem of abortion. d) Face to pollution. e) In the home. 3. Specific recognition of the right to integrity in the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union. 4. Determination of the fundamental positions under the right to integrity. 4.1 Procedural violation of the prohibition of torture. 4.2 Regarding health protection and in the heath field. a) Overlap with the right to health. b) Consent to medical treatment. c) Donations and transplants. d) Abortion as a potential exercise of the right to integrity by the pregnant woman. f) In the field of medical and scientific experiments. 4.3 Right to integrity against pollution. 4.4 Right to protection. 4.5 The guarantee to not suffer legal physical interventions and the exclusion of the indemnity guarantee. 4.6 In the special relationships of subjection. 4.7 In the labor market. 5. Conclusion: what object and what content?AbstractThe article tries to analyze the evolution of the protection of integrity in Spain since the Constitution came into force in 1978. First of all, it is addressed the context in which the Constitution was approved as well as the options opened to Constituent Power. It is underlined that, for the first time in Spain, a specific right to integrity is declared, something unusual at that time, together with the traditional prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, already introduced in the Constitution of 1812.It was necessary to analyze how the protection of integrity in International Law on Human Rights, as well as the right to the integrity of the person, proclaimed specifically in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In this sense, it is remarkable how the European Court of Human Rights has inferred a right to the integrity from the right to respect for private and family life, by interpreting evolutionarily the Convention.However, it is not easy to determine neither the object of the right to integrity nor what are the fundamental positions, the life situations, whose violation should permit person to claim in Courts of Justice, by activating their protective function. For the rest, it has also been crucial the intense legislative  development that has implemented, in various sectors of the legal system,measures of protection in favor of the most vulnerable people.


Author(s):  
Natsu Taylor Saito

International law has evolved to acknowledge fundamental rights essential to the deconstruction of racial hierarchy and the dismantling of colonial relations. These include the protection of human dignity, the recognition of Indigenous rights, the right to be free from racial discrimination and xenophobia, and recognition of the prohibition on genocide as a preemptory norm. In each of these areas it recognizes more substantive rights and provides a broader range of remedial options than are available under US law.


Author(s):  
Andrés Oscar De Cicco

Las técnicas de reproducción asistida han contribuido a que personas biológicamente imposibilitadas para concebir puedan acceder a servicios de atención médica relacionados a la salud reproductiva en igualdad de condiciones que el resto de los individuos y, de ese modo, ver cumplimentado no solo su derecho humano de acceso a la salud, sino un conjunto de derechos fundamentales análogos como es el derecho a la vida privada y familiar y el derecho a formar una familia. En esta dirección, procederé a analizar la sentencia "Artavia Murillo vs. Costa Rica" dictada por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Si bien la sentencia recae sobre un caso en concreto, significó en la región un antes y un después en materia de derechos humanos y derechos reproductivos en particular, ya que recae sobre un tema en el que, aún en la actualidad, no existe un consenso político ni moral.   Assisted reproduction techniques have contributed to the fact that people who are biologically unable to conceive can access to health care services related to reproductive health on equal terms with the rest of the individuals and, consequently, not only have their human rights to access to health fulfilled, but a set of similar fundamental rights such as the right to private and family life and the right to found a family. In this direction, I will proceed to analyze the judgment "Artavia Murillo vs. Costa Rica" issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Although the sentence falls on a specific case, it meant a before-and-after in the region in terms of ​​human rights and reproductive rights in particular, since it falls on an issue on which even today there is no political or moral consensus.


Author(s):  
Daisy Rafaela da Silva ◽  
Grasiele Augusta Ferreira Nascimento

O presente estudo apresenta como o sistema preventivo de Dom Bosco, desenvolvido na Itália em meados do século XIX, antecedeu ao reconhecimento jurídico internacional da promoção e proteção dos direitos fundamentais de crianças e adolescentes. Dom Bosco foi um defensor da dignidade humana, e da concretização dos Direitos Humanos, sem que estes estivessem cunhados no ordenamento jurídico internacional. Com o sistema preventivo, o qual apresenta, como um de seus fundamentos, o formar “bons cristãos e honestos cidadãos”, há toda uma perspectiva de promoção e proteção dos direitos de crianças e adolescentes; que não eram reconhecidos, à época, como sujeitos de Direito. Trata da problemática que envolve a discriminação e a dignidade da pessoa humana no plano da ciência do Direito, e como a pedagogia salesiana contribui para a sua proteção e a efetivação dos Direitos Humanos. Fruto de pesquisa desenvolvida junto ao programa de Mestrado em Direito do Centro UNISAL, unidade de Lorena, cuja linha de pesquisa envolve os direitos sociais das crianças e adolescentes, utilizou-se fundamentalmente como método a integração das teorias jurídicas e aquelas da educação salesiana. Este artigo desenvolveu-se considerando-se ser Dom Bosco o precursor da defesa dos direitos humanos de crianças e jovens. Com base na pedagogia do amor apresentou a prevenção como mecanismo na promoção e proteção às discriminações e ao prestígio da igualdade e à promoção da dignidade. A pedagogia salesiana reconhece cada pessoa, sendo que reconhecer é proteger, a partir de um caminho que se faz para a concretização dos demais direitos. Conclui-se que, nas concepções e nas obras salesianas, observa-se a promoção dos direitos humanos fundamentais como o direito à educação, à cultura, ao esporte e ao lazer.AbstractThe Preventive System of Don Bosco: the promotion and protection of fundamental rights of children and adolescentsThe present study shows as Don Bosco’s preventive system of Education, developed in Italy in the mid nineteenth century, is prior to the international legal recognition of the promotion and protection of fundamental rights of children and adolescents. Don Bosco was a defender of human dignity, and the achievement of human rights, without which these were minted in the international legal order. With the preventive system, which has as one of its foundations forming the "good Christians and honest citizens", there is a whole perspective of promoting and protecting the rights of children and adolescents who were not recognized at the time as subjects of law. This study presents the issues involving discrimination and human dignity in terms of the science of law, and how the Salesian pedagogy contributes to their protection and realization of human rights. The paper results of research carried out at the Master's program in Law, at UNISAL, Lorena, whose line of research involves social rights of children and adolescents. As research method was used primarily the integrating between legal theories and those of Salesian education. This article was developed considering Don Bosco to be the precursor of human rights of children and youth. Based on the pedagogy of love, presented as a prevention mechanism to protect from discrimination and to promote and to respect equality principles and the promotion of dignity. The Salesian pedagogy recognizes each person, meaning recognizing as protecting, from a path that is the starting for the realization of other rights. We conclude that, in the conceptions and according to Salesian works, there is the promotion of fundamental human rights such as the right to education, culture, sport and leisure.ResumenEl Sistema Preventivo de Don Bosco: la promoción y protección de los derechos fundamentales de los niños y adolescentesEl presente estudio muestra cómo el sistema preventivo de Don Bosco, desarrollado en Italia a mediados del siglo XIX, antes del reconocimiento legal internacional de la promoción y protección de los derechos fundamentales de los niños y adolescentes. Don Bosco fue un defensor de la dignidad humana, y la realización de los derechos humanos, en que éstas aun non están acuñadas en el orden jurídico internacional. Con el sistema de prevención, que tiene como uno de sus fundamentos la formación de los "buenos cristianos y honrados ciudadanos", hay toda una perspectiva de promoción y protección de los derechos de los niños y adolescentes, que no fueron reconocidos en la época como sujetos de la ley. Este estudio presenta los temas relacionados con la discriminación y la dignidad humana en términos de la ciencia del derecho, y cómo la pedagogía salesiana contribuye a su protección y realización de los derechos humanos. El estudio és resultado de la investigación llevada a cabo en el programa de Maestría en Derecho, UNISAL, Lorena, cuya línea de investigación envuelve los derechos sociales de los niños y adolescentes. Como método de investigación fue utilizada principalmente la integración de las teorías legales y aquellas de la educación salesiana. Este artículo fue desarrollado considerando que Don Bosco es el precursor de los derechos humanos de los niños y jóvenes. Sobre la base de la pedagogía del amor, que se presenta como un mecanismo de prevención para proteger de la discriminación y promover el prestigio de la igualdad y la promoción de la dignidad. La pedagogía salesiana reconoce a cada persona, sendo que reconocer é proteger, a partir de un camino que se hace para la realización de otros derechos. Llegamos a la conclusión de que, en las concepciones y obras Salesiana, está la promoción de los derechos humanos fundamentales, como el derecho a la educación, la cultura, el deporte y el ocio.Revisor do inglês: Prof. Tadeu GiattiRevisor do espanhol: Prof. Lilian de Souza


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