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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua Case

Claudio M Grossman

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
December 2006

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved.date: 13 February 2019

Subject(s):
Indigenous peoples — Right to property — Equality before the law — Exhaustion of local remedies — Responsibility of states

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law under the direction of Rüdiger Wolfrum.

1 The Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua was a landmark decision in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights . It was also the first time that an international tribunal recognized the existence of communal rights to land for indigenous populations within the human right to property, laid down in several international treaties and conventions ( Group Rights ; Indigenous Peoples ; Property, Right to, International Protection ). This section addresses the factual background of the case, an analysis of...
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