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To fulfill the objectives of the Agrarian Policy, the State shall carry out the following activities:
1. Grant necessary farm lands to rural dwellers and regulate the use of the water. A special system of collective ownership for rural communities which so request may be established by law;
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5. Settle new lands and regulate the tenure and use of such lands and of those incorporated into the economy as a result of the construction of new highways;
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7. Perform studies of the land in order to establish the agrological classification of Panamanian land. The policy established for the implementation of this Chapter⁵ shall be applicable to Indian Communities in accordance with scientific methods of cultural changes. (Art. 126)

WHEREAS the Peoples of the Island of Saint Vincent, who are known as Vincentians-
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c. realize that the maintenance of human dignity presupposes safeguarding the rights of privacy of family life, of property
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WHEREAS the People of Antigua and Barbuda-
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e. desire to establish a framework of supreme law within which to guarantee their inalienable human rights and freedoms, among them, the rights to liberty, property, security and legal redress of grievances ... subject only to the public interest:
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The State recognizes, protects and guarantees individual and communitarian or collective property of land, as long as it fulfills a social purpose or social economic purposes, as the case may be. (Art. 393)

The guarantee in this Charter¹⁰ of certain rights and freedoms shall not be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any aboriginal, treaty or other rights or freedoms that pertain to the aboriginal peoples of Canada including
(a) any rights or freedoms that have been recognized by the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763; and
(b) any rights or freedoms that now exist by way of land claims agreements or may be so acquired. (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 25)

Indigenous communes, communities, peoples and nations are recognized and guaranteed, in conformity with the Constitution and human rights agreements, conventions, declarations and other international instruments, the following collective rights:
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4. To keep ownership, without subject to a statute of limitations, of their community lands, which shall be unalienable, immune from seizure and indivisible. These lands shall be exempt from paying fees or taxes.
5. To keep ownership of ancestral lands and territories and to obtain free awarding of these lands.
6. To participate in the use, usufruct, administration and conservation of natural renewable resources located on their lands.
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The territories of the peoples living in voluntary isolation are an irreducible and intangible ancestral possession and all forms of extractive activities shall be forbidden there. The State shall adopt measures to guarantee their lives, enforce respect for self-determination and the will to remain in isolation and to ensure observance of their rights. The violation of these rights shall constitute a crime of ethnocide, which shall be classified as such by law.
The State shall guarantee the enforcement of these collective rights without any discrimination, in conditions of equality and equity between men and women. (Art. 57)

The following are the fundamental obligations of the State:
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j. To actively promote programs of rural development which tend to increase and diversify the national production based on the principle of private property and of the protection of family patrimony.
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A. This Constitution recognizes and guarantees the right of indigenous peoples and communities to self-determination and, consequently, to the autonomy to:
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V. Preserve and improve the habitat and preserve the integrity of their lands in the terms established in this Constitution.
VI. Accede, with respect to the forms and modalities of ownership and tenancy of the land established in this Constitution and in the laws of the matter, as well as the rights acquired by third parties or by members of the community, to the preferential use and enjoyment of the natural resources of the places [lugares] that the communities inhabit and occupy, except those that correspond to the strategic areas, in terms of this Constitution. For these effects the communities may associate in terms of law.
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Every person has the right:
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16. To ownership and inheritance.
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It is hereby recognised and declared that in Trinidad and Tobago there have existed and shall continue to exist, without discrimination by reason of race, origin, colour, religion or sex, the following fundamental human rights and freedoms, namely–
(a) the right of the individual to life, liberty, security of the person and enjoyment of property and the right not to be deprived thereof except by due process of law;
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