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water resources calls for more efforts to respect indigenous rights in Latin America

Monday, August 9, 2010 12:36

The UN called Monday for greater Latin American governments efforts to comply with United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of America, said an official of the agency on the International Day of Indigenous Peoples.

"It is urgent to make further efforts to realize the principles and rights stated in the Declaration (adopted in September 2007 by 143 countries)," said Carmen Rosa Villa, representative in Central High Commissioner for Human Rights .

For Villa, it is "essential" to ensure compliance with the rights of indigenous peoples to participate in decisions that affect them, and that the query "favors the construction of spaces intercultural dialogue and cooperation "between States and indigenous peoples.

therefore called on the States of the region to take the necessary measures to implement the Declaration and ensure full respect, protection and guarantee human rights of these ethnic groups, said the International Day of Indigenous Peoples.

For United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, there is still a "big gap" between the principles of the Declaration of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the reality of these peoples in the region because they "Continue to suffer discrimination, marginalization, extreme poverty, displacement and exclusion in decision-making processes," he said.

In Latin America there are 522 indigenous peoples spread across 20 countries, where they speak 420 languages \u200b\u200bbelonging to 99 language families, according to a recent Atlas of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Brazil, with 241, Colombia , 83, Mexico (67) and Peru (43) are the countries with the largest number of indigenous peoples in the region, unlike Belize (4), El Salvador (3 ) and Uruguay (0).

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But, Bolivia is the country with the highest percentage of indigenous population (60%), followed by Guatemala (40%), Peru (14%) and Mexico (9%).

The Quechua people are the most numerous, with nearly six million Indians, followed by the Aymara with 2.5 million, divided both between Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. We follow the Nahuatl (with more than two million) and Maya (1.3 million) in Mexico and the K'iche '(1.2 million) and Q'eqchi' (800,000) in Guatemala.

With 313, the Amazon is the highest number of indigenous peoples there, followed by Mexico and Central America, with 126, the Chaco area of \u200b\u200b39, 37 and the Andes to the Caribbean with 18. Var