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Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua, Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua, Merits, reparations and costs, IACHR Series C No 79, [2001] IACHR 9, IHRL 1462 (IACHR 2001), 31st August 2001, Inter-American Court of Human Rights [IACtHR]

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Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua, Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua, Merits, reparations and costs, IACHR Series C No 79, [2001] IACHR 9, IHRL 1462 (IACHR 2001), 31st August 2001, Inter-American Court of Human Rights [IACtHR]

Date:
31 August 2001
Citation(s):
IACHR Series C No 79 (Official Citation)
[2001] IACHR 9 (Other Reference)
IHRL 1462 (IACHR 2001) (OUP reference)
Content type:
International court decisions
Product:
Oxford Reports on International Law [ORIL]

Module:
International Human Rights Law [IHRL]
Jurisdiction:
Inter-American Court of Human Rights [IACtHR]

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved.date: 16 February 2020

Whether Nicaragua violated Articles 1 (obligation to respect rights), 2 (domestic legal effects), 21 (right to property), and 25 (right to judicial protection) of the American Convention on Human Rights by failing to demarcate the Awas Tingni Community’s communal lands and adopt effective measures to ensure the Community’s property rights.

Whether the same alleged violations occurred when Nicaragua granted a logging concession without consulting the Community and without providing an effective remedy for its petition.

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