translated from Spanish: 161 proposals for the Indigenous Rights Act of the state are delivered

Baja California Sur, Mexico.-Delegates from communities and indigenous groups approved and delivered to the Commission on Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs of the State Congress, 161 proposals that will be incorporated in the opinion of the Law on rights, persons, Indigenous peoples and communities of Baja California Sur that seeks to strengthen the rights of this sector of Sudcaliforniana society. In what the Human Rights Commission of the State Congress called the state Meeting of indigenous communities, it was announced that the proposals approved and delivered for its legislative process. These are products of three months of work in various regions of BCS in direct dialogue with the communities and towns resident in the valley of the Vizcaino, Loreto, Comondú, La Paz and Los Cabos who raised with different nuances the non discrimination of the community Indigenous people in Baja California Sur, access to justice with all existing guarantees, education, health, respect for their artistic and cultural traditions, and also respect for their human and labor rights in the community. At the state meeting, the presence of municipal authorities related to the indigenous population was highlighted, that both in the cabildos and in the government structure of the city councils of the entity must establish agile mechanisms to attend to this Sector of the Sudcaliforniana society. The President of the Commission on Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs of Congress, deputy Petra Juárez Macede in speaking, said that the 161 proposals arose from a wide-ranging dialogue throughout the state
“Proposals that will become law in our state, a law that will exist to defend our rights, because it is time to hear our voices.”

Juarez Macede said that most of the indigenous settled in the state
“We arrived in Baja California Sur and other parts of the country arrived not for pleasure, not for holidays, but for necessity, looking for the well-being of our family, we arrived here as Mexican, as Mexicans to join the productive work.”

Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Congress, Congresswoman Anita Beltrán Peralta stressed the importance of the proposals that will be an essential part of the new law in the State 
“This new rule in the area of indigenous communities and peoples must bear the feeling of each and every one of you, so it is important, because it was built with the feeling of the communities, their desires, and for that we have worked with you to the end OFR Ecerles a law in which they are reflected. ”

The representative of the Government of the state, Emeterio Orozco recognized the work of the Commission on Human Rights as well as recalled the tenacity of Felix Mendoza Santos, who died last November 2018, and who was a tireless fighter for the Rights of the Oaxacan community in the state
“I am sure that my friend Félix Mendoza’s spirit is present in this Hall,” said the state official.

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