Los pueblos indígenas y la protección de sus convicciones religiosas ante conflictos de acaparamientos de tierras y aguas

Résumé

This doctoral thesis aims to reaffirm the uniqueness of the right to freedom of religion or belief of indigenous peoples, which is irretrievably violated in land and water grabbing conflicts that threaten the integrity of their traditional territories. Their religious convictions are inextricably linked to their ancestral lands through a deep spiritual connection that forms the essential basis of their belief systems and defines their group identity, all of which moves away from Euro-Western parameters in this regard. These beliefs lay at the core of their fight for the respect and effective enjoyment of their human rights, strengthening it immeasurably. Through the inductive and comparative methods and a rigorous and critical case study at different levels, this dissertation demonstrates that the violation of this human right happens in a considerable amount of land-grabbing cases of indigenous peoples all around the world.