Rights To Traditional Lands Of The Amazon Indigenous Peoples as a Human Right

In this paper it will be analyzed the indigenous rights of traditional lands. The analyses of meaning of property, from the constitutive and legitimizing aspects, and its scope, from the perspective of its ownership and reach, that has gained relevance as grounds to indigenous people’s self-governance rights over the property.

Beatriz Souza Costa – Organizer

Post-Doctorate in Environmental Law from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

(Spain). PhD and Master in Constitutional Law from UFMG. Dean of Research at Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara. Professor of the Graduate Program in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara.

Jamile Bergamaschine Mata Diz – Organizer

Director of European Centre of Excellence UFMG. Chair Jean Monnet – Faculty of Law. Professor at UFMG and UIT. Visiting professor at Alcalá University/Spain; Castilla-La Mancha University/Spain and University of Lisbon. Director of International Research Network “Integration; State and Governance”.

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION
Beatriz Souza Costa…………………………………………………………..1
CHAPTER I
PROPERTY FORMATION PROCESS AS AN INDIVIDUAL
OR COMMUNAL HUMAN RIGHT
Márcio Luís de Oliveira……………………………………………………….5
CHAPTER 2
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RIGHTS TO TRADITIONAL
LANDS
Lorena Machado Rogedo Bastianetto………………………………….19
CHAPTER 3
INDIGENOUS COMMUNAL PROPERTY RIGHT: THE
CONTRIBUTION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
André de Paiva Toledo……………………………………………………….37
CHAPTER 4
COLLECTIVE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES OF THE AMAZON
Ana Virgínia Gabrich Fonseca Freire Ramos……………………….57
CONCLUSION
Camilla de Freitas Pereira…………………………………………………71