Normative basis for an attention protocol for indigenous users in Chilean tribunals: special reference to Local Police Judges

Abstract

Latinoamerican Normative Systems generally recognize indigenous peoples’ rights; by doing so, they have created a specific area of legal study. In some places where those rights are better developed, support judicial services were implemented in order to meet the needs and specific cultural characteristics of indigenous community members. The comparison between these normative systems, along with international and Chilean national law, allow to identify the normative foundations that might sustain the drafting of an attention protocol for the components of the indigenous community before Chilean courts and tribunals, which can eventually contribute to minimize the existing inequality gap.