nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/585f5022d6e126f5 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260601s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/585f5022d6e126f5 doi eng 342 23 Guaramag Umenda, Wider Author aut “Selvar” the Courts - Intercultural Justice in an Amazonian Territory Guaramag Umenda, Wider Verfassungsblog 2026-06-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 28 May 2026, the Provincial Court of Sucumbíos ruled in favour of the A'i Cofán community of Sinangoe: formal land titles for 63,755 hectares of Amazonian territory. The ruling followed an intercultural hearing held in the rainforest itself – beginning at 4 a.m. with the taking of yoco, ending with children presenting hand-painted maps of rivers they swim in and paths their grandparents walked. The community's territorial mapping was cited as decisive evidence: an ethnographic tool showing how a people conceptualise their place within their own cosmology. CC BY-SA 4.0 Amazon Ecuador Indigenes Volk Inter-American Court of Human Rights Inter-American Human Rights System RIghts of Nature indigenous peoples indigenous rights (DE-588)4187207-1 gnd Indigenes Volk Narváez Umenda, Alexandra Author aut García Ruales, Jenny Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/intercultural-hearing-amazon/ raw object