Mexican President Sheinbaum Grants Legal Status to 68 Indigenous Peoples - teleSUR English
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Sheinbaum signs decree on indigenous communities' rights
Against the backdrop of Human Rights Day, the president signed an additional document with the purpose of creating a presidential commission to monitor the due implementation of such plans. During the Sheimbaun’s regular press conference, the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, recalled that for decades Mexicans lived in a country where exclusion, discrimination, racism, classism and machismo were normalized. Starting in 2018,…
Mexican President Sheinbaum Grants Legal Status to 68 Indigenous Peoples - teleSUR English
This Latin American country is home to approximately 23 million people who identify themselves as Indigenous. On Tuesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree recognizing the rights of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and establishing the Presidential Commission for Justice Plans for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples. RELATED: U.S. Troops Not To Enter Mexico to Fight Drug Cartels: Sheinbaum During the morning press conference at the Natio…
In her speech, the Mexican president stressed that there are about 23 million indigenous people living in the country, of whom about 7.4 million speak some native language, the Nahuatl, Maya, Tzetzal and Zapoteco being the most predominant. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, signed on Tuesday a historic decree that recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples, which represents a significant advance in the recognition and protection of the rig…
Fernando DávilaThe head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez, informed today through her social networks that the Mechanism for the Implementation and Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was installed.It may interest you: Mexico has advanced in Human Rights, there is no repression: Rosa Icela Rodriguez In this sense, the official emphasized that this will allow progress in the ideal of justice to mee…
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, signed the decree that formalizes the constitutional reform that recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples, a historic modification that is published in 57 original languages. The reform, which was approved last September under the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recognizes for the first time the 68 indigenous peoples of Mexico as subjects of public law with legal personality and their…
The Director General of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, Adelfo Regino Montes, highlighted that the text was translated into at least 23 original languages.
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