Under western eyes: Articulation between indigenous justice and the national judicial system
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Farid Samir Benavides-Vanegas
Abstract
The State’s response to the problems posed by the existence of indigenous special jurisdiction left for jurisprudence, in a decision model case by case, the determination of what is the meaning of the rights of indigenous peoples in a State like Colombia. At the same time, it has tried to impose the new constitutional order on the different indigenous peoples, thus acknowledging their dual role as equal citizens before the law and a people with differential rights. In this paper I want to address two issues: first, the discussion about the coordination of special indigenous jurisdiction with national justice; and, second, I want to show the project for which the Colombian Constitution was translated into seven indigenous languages and show some of the results of such a government initiative.
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