4 14. In fact, there are nowadays many multicultural societies, and the attention due to the cultural diversity seems to us to constitute an essential requisite to secure the efficacy of the norms of protection of human rights, at national and international levels. Likewise, we consider that the invocation of cultural manifestations cannot attempt against the universally recognized standards of observance and respect for the fundamental rights of the human person. Thus, at the same time that we affirm the importance of the attention due to cultural diversity, also for the recognition of the universality of human rights, we firmly discard the distortions of the so-called cultural "relativism". 15. The interpretation and application given by the Inter-American Court to the normative content of Article 21 of the American Convention in the present case of the Community Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni represent, in our view, a positive contribution to the protection of the communal form of property prevailing among the members of that Community. This communal conception, besides the values underlying it, has a cosmovision of its own, and an important intertemporal dimension, in bringing to the fore the bonds of human solidarity that link those who are alive with their dead and with the ones who are still to come. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Alirio Abreu-Burelli Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary Máximo Pacheco-Gómez Judge