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An explanation of the first version of the Raizal Statute for autonomy ("Estatuto Raizal"), in the 1980s, and its outreach. Understand the retaken of the Estatuto Raizal after the takeover of the airport in San Andres island, led by the AMEN-SD Movement (1999), and the active role of the SOS Movement leaders; as well as the retaken of the process after the International Court of Justice' ruling over the territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua (2012), the role of AMEN-SD Movement and the newborn Indigenous Raizal National Authority (INRA); and the participation of the Raizal Diaspora that started to get consolidated, after the destruction of the islands by hurricane IOTA (2020).

Do you know the reasons for so long delay toward the restoration of the territorial, self-determination, and self-government rights of the Raizal People?

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 right to self-government of indigenous and ethnic peoples, like a materialization of their right to self-determination. The Indigenous National Raizal Authority (INRA) is the latest expression of the self-government of the Raizal People, reviving their ancestral political institution that for some reason was marginated.  INRA started its establishment with the Board of Spiritual Councilors (2012), and the first provisional Raizal Territorial Council (2013); other bodies are yet to be constituted.