What is it about?
The struggle of Saamaka Maroons to protect their territory from multinational logging and mining companies and their 2007 victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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Why is it important?
The 2007 judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights established that Maroons will be henceforth considered the same as Indigenous Peoples in international law and established legal precedents that are being used by Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.
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This page is a summary of: Rainforest Warriors, January 2011, University of Pennsylvania Press,
DOI: 10.9783/9780812203721.
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