The United Nations Programme for Development (PNUD) revealed this information in a report. It further states that members of indigenous communities are living in precarious conditions. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH) has condemned the state of Mexico for violations.
The text was presented on Monday by the United Nations. The document was prepared by the office of Human Development of Indigenous People in Mexico.
The report says that 90% of indigenous communities cannot access education, health, housing or basic services.
Meanwhile, half of indigenous women do not complete primary school and infant mortality is very high.
The report indicates that given the rates in 2010, for each 10,000 newborns, 228 die. The statistic was described by the UN as “very high and similar to the estimates in some of the countries of Africa.”
The director of the United Nations Programme for Development (PNUD), Magdy Martínez Solimán, lamented that Mexico has a “historical debt to the indigenous people.” And she explained that is because of “a succession of humiliations as they were dispossessed of their land and of their rights.”
Similarly, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH) ordered the Mexican government responsible for the violations of Valentina Rosendo Cantú and Inés Fernández Ortega.
Both belong to the community of Tlapanecas in the southern state of Guerrero. The women were beaten and sexually abused by soldiers.
What’s more the commission identified the violation of judicial guarantees. Following this, the state of Mexico should, “conduct, within a reasonable investigation path, a plan to punish those responsible.”
In a dialogue with Radio Bemba, Cantú explained that, “there are many women that are violated by the military, but never made complaints.” The victim explained that “this is a shame, and occurs because of not knowing Spanish.”
Story courtesy of Agencia Pulsar, a news agency run by AMARC-ALC network of community radios.
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