Indigenous women in Mexico face deep inequality gaps and multiple forms of gender -based violence, aggravated by structural racism and inheritance of colonialism rooted in the country, they warned activists in this year of the indigenous woman who decreed President Claudia Sheinbaum.
In Mexico, around 12 million women represent 51% of the 68 indigenous communities, which subsist 500 years after the Spanish colony, according to the “Entrened Identities Report: the layers of gender -based violence from an intersectional view”.
The report, which will be presented at the UN on Tuesday, March 11, to the 69th session of the Commission of Women’s Legal and Social Condition (CSW), proposes to incorporate intersectional and intercultural approaches to public policies to eradicate gender violence.
Norma Juan Cruz, a member of the Mayor Council of the National Coordinator of Indigenous Women (CONAMI), explained that intersectionality helps to understand that “women are not just one woman”, while interculturality allows us to understand this diversity from the different cultures that exist.
“Because there is an idea that indigenous women are all the same, we think the same, we have the same concerns, activities, and it is not so, we are very diverse,” he said.
For example, he explained, the way of facing violence is not the same for an indigenous girl or woman in an urban area that in a rural area, who have different ways of understanding and relating to the world.
Therefore, he warned, when the State says that all indigenous women are the same is allowing their rights to be violated because actions or policies will not be generated that allow them to exercise them integrally.
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Territorial dispossession and forced migration are the most viewed forms of violence towards indigenous women
Territorial dispossession and forced migration are some of the factors that aggravate violence against indigenous women, often caused by organized crime and the construction of extractive, energy, infrastructure or tourist megaprojects, also alerts the report prepared by the Catholic organization for the right to decide, together with groups and activists.
Among other inequality gaps, he points out that the speakers of an indigenous language have an average 5.8 degrees of schooling, compared to 9.9 degrees of those who do not speak an indigenous language, and with the men who do speak some indigenous language, whose average is 6.7 degrees, according to data from the official census of 2020.
More than a speech, Norma Don Juan Cruz said that they expect the recommendations to be listed by the report being taken into account by the Mexican government in this 2025, to advance differentiated and specific actions and strategies towards indigenous women throughout their life cycle.
He also recognized and valued “The gesture” of Sheinbaum to appoint 2025 as the year of indigenous women, which shows that there is a “political will” to do justice for indigenous women who have “lived multidimensional, historical and structural violence,” but that requires concrete measures not to be left alone.
“It is a good start, that we hope that the six -year period and that we also hope to see the actions and strategies with budget (…) because a speech without budget, because it is left alone in that,” he said.
For his part, Valeria Vázquez, of Catholics for the right to decide, stressed the importance of applying this approach to eliminate gender -based violence, which persist 30 years after Beijing’s action platform.
“There is still a historical debt in issues of prevention and violence care. So, for us it is important that at 30 years of that agenda and at this global moment to review the agenda, let’s put (…) new foci and new analysis of what is happening with the life of women, ”he said.
The report also analyzes violence against women with disabilities, of sex-genic diversity and Afromexicanas, who share their experiences, not as objects of study, but as producers of knowledge, they said.
With EFE information.
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