Ten years after the judgement in the case of Norín Catrimán and others versus Chile: Status of compliance of the reparation measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Abstract

On May 29, 2014, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued the judgment in the case Norín Catrimán and others vs. Chile. More than two decades have passed after the events that gave rise to the case, and three sentences of compliance supervision have been dictated. This article analyzes the reparation measures ordered in the case and the compliance that the State of Chile has been given to them. This, being upon the tenth anniversary —at the time of writing this article (April 2024)— of the international condemnation. In the following, the facts that gave rise to the declaration of international responsibility are reviewed, as well as the rights contained in the American Convention on Human Rights that were declared violated, in order to contextualize the reparation measures ordered and thus proceed to examine the state of compliance with each of these in particular. The analysis considers the gradual process of compliance that the Chilean State has been giving to some of the decreed measures, and evidences certain precisions and discussions that have arisen in this regard; as well as the reparation measures whose compliance remains pending to this day, in a national context where the discussion on human rights and the so-called «Mapuche conflict» remains in force.