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Larry Salomon

Nicaragua

Mayangna leader from Awas Tingni, AMASAU Territory, North Atlantic Coast, Nicaragua, Larry is Spokesperson for the Indigenous Government of the Mayangna Nation and Consultant on issues of governance and communal property. He is a Human Rights Law graduate.

 

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    After a seven year battle, the Mayangna community of Awas Tingni won a landmark ruling at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and demonstrated that international human rights law could protect indigenous peoples, their land and their natural resources. As a result a Demarcation Law was passed in 2003 in Nicaragua to recognise and respect […]

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