Indigenous in Mexico: Living, Law, & COVID-19 Impact, Diapositivas de Crecimiento Económico y Globalización

¡Descarga Indigenous in Mexico: Living, Law, & COVID-19 Impact y más Diapositivas en PDF de Crecimiento Económico y Globalización solo en Docsity! Indigenous people in Latin America Mariana Peralta, Andrea Canto, Elda Gómez, Landy Acoltzi, Carla Rodríguez as Mexican Indigenous How many indigenous people there are and where are they distributed ● 25 million people recognize themselves as indigenous, out of all of them only 7 million speak an indigenous language. ● As for distribution, in Mexico there are over 43 million localities occupied by indigenous population. ● They are dispersed across regions such as: Mayo-Yaqui, Tarahumara, Huicot o Gran Nayar, Purépecha, Huasteca, Sierra Norte de Puebla y Totonacapan, Otomí de Hidalgo y Querétaro, Mazahua-Otomí, Montaña de Guerrero, Cuicatlán, Mazateca, Tehuacán y Zongolica, Chinanteca, Mixe, Mixteca, Costa y Sierra Sur de Oaxaca, Valles Centrales, Sierra de Juárez, Istmo, Chimalapas, Tuxtlas, Popoluca-Náhuatl de Veracruz, Chontal de Tabasco, Norte de Chiapas, Los Altos de Chiapas, Selva Lacandona, Frontera Sur and Maya, among others. Timeline of approved legislation at the national level to guarantee the protection indigenous rights (a path to social inclusion for indigenous people in Mexico) In the past 20 years Mexico has achieved concrete progress in terms of approving legislation that guarantees indigenous peoples a path to social inclusion, following a global trend triggered by ILO 169. How is education for the indigenous people ● Only 27 percent of indigenous children in Mexico graduate from high school. Indigenous children are more likely than non-indigenous children to drop out of school, and indigenous girls are especially at risk of not completing their education. ● Some of the major obstacles to indigenous education in Mexico are the lack of schools in rural areas, lower-quality teachers or teachers who reach burnout and overall poorer academic performance due to the language barrier. ● There is an educational backwardness and inequality in the system. ● Indigenous schools have the worst level of infrastructure and school organization. Effects of COVID19 on Mexican Indigenous People ● UNESCO’s office in Mexico City has been engaging with indigenous peoples to support targeted actions to respond to the crisis and their particular needs. ● Official statistics from the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) to 27 July 2020, reported 4,140 positive cases of COVID-19, and 719 casualties among indigenous language speakers. Meanwhile, the pandemic is continuing to evolve. The momentum of the pandemic and the prior inequalities already faced by indigenous people in Mexico, are not favorable for the well-being of indigenous peoples in the face of the pandemic. ● Among the various effects and disadvantages experienced by indigenous peoples, access to water stands out as critical given the current health crisis. Of the rural population in Mexico, 21% of those who speak an indigenous language lack water due to access problems, while among those who do not speak an indigenous language, the lack of service is 16.8%.