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DAY 1 - THE STATE AND THE LAW, AND THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLES. Understand the laws that support human rights, from a national and international level. You will learn from the Colombian Constitution of 1991, the United Nations System of Human Rights, and some regional systems, like the American and African ones. But as well, you will understand much of the principles and ideas that are behind these, and that brought them forth.

DAY 2- THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLES, and LAND RIGHTS. Particular emphasis will be made on the Rights of Peoples, like the Raizal Indigenous People. The long delay to recognise the Territorial Rights and land rights of the People will be analyzed.

DAY 3: The territorial dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia at the International Court of Justice, and the effects upon the Indigenous Raizal People.

Understand the history from the arrival of the puritans on the Seaflower ship to Old Providence in 1630, the relation with the indigenous people of the Miskito Coast and the enslaved Africans, followed by nearly 200 years of the dispute between England and Spain over the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina, as well as the resistance of the ancestral settlers of the territory, and the reasons why Colombia (from South America) irrupted into the story of the Raizal People. Understand the foundation of the cultural identity of the Raizal People. 

Understand the origin of the current problems that the People have on the Archipelago, which got consolidated during these last 200 years. What caused the overpopulation (which is considered the main problem),  and all the economic, cultural, social, religious, environmental, and political effects.

You need to understand the invented "post-colonial" Southamerican principle of "Uttis Possedetis Juris" that was used to claim sovereignty over the Raizal People Territory. Understand how the Colombianization process took place, and how the story before the Esguerras-Barcenas Treaty (1928) between Nicaragua and Colombia had not been explained.