BookMujeres indígenas del sur de México y sus derechos humanos: ...
Title
- Mujeres indígenas del sur de México y sus derechos humanos: limitaciones y desafíos. Coordinación de Mary Carmen Villeda Santana.
Published
- Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Mexico: Universidad del Istmo; México: Plaza y Valdés, 2013.
HLAS annotation
HLAS annotation
- A collection of five related articles addressing issues of indigenous women and their human rights. The works seek to elaborate the legal contexts (state, national, international) within which indigenous rights are to be exercised and also why they so seldom are. The studies promote deeper debates about the application of law to indigenous communities and conclude that there is a wholesale failure to adequately apply public law to such communities and especially to women's rights. Marginalization, poverty, racism, ignorance of rights, lack of literacy, and speaking exclusively one's native language (erroneously called a dialect) serve as barriers to access to exercising one's rights and political participation in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guerrero, the three Mexican states focused upon in the book.
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Description
- 208 p.: bibl., ill.
HLAS subjects
- Indigenous Peoples--Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples--Women's Rights
- Women's Rights--Mexico
- Civil Rights--Mexico
- Human Rights--Mexico
- Law and Legislation--Mexico
- Indigenous Policy--Mexico
- Chiapas, Mexico (state)--Social Conditions
- Guerrero, Mexico (state)--Social Conditions
- Oaxaca, Mexico (state)--Social Conditions
LC subjects
- Indian women--Civil rights--Mexico--Chiapas.
- Indian women--Civil rights--Mexico--Guerrero (State)
- Indian women--Civil rights--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
- Indian women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Mexico--Chiapas.
- Indian women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Mexico--Guerrero (State)
- Indian women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
- Indian women--Mexico--Chiapas--Social conditions.
- Indian women--Mexico--Guerrero (State)--Social conditions.
- Indian women--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Social conditions.
- Women's rights--Mexico--Chiapas.
- Women's rights--Mexico--Guerrero (State)
- Women's rights--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
- Human rights--Mexico--Chiapas.
- Human rights--Mexico--Guerrero (State)
- Human rights--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
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Contents
- Presentación -- Prefacio -- Panorama de la situación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres indígenas del sur de México / Mary Carmen Villeda Santana -- Desarrollo humano de las mujeres indígenas del sur de México / Araceli Hernández Jiménez -- Mujeres indígenas del sur de México y el derecho al trabajo en la era de globalización / Jeremiah Robert Mabele Shija -- Los derechos políticos de las mujeres en México: antecendentes y situación actual / Ignacio Luna Espinoza, Osval Antonio Montesinos López, Adriana Martínez Valdivieso -- Principales instrumentos sobre derechos humano de los pueblos indígenas en México / Juquila Araceli González Nolasco.
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
- 9786074026382
- 6074026386
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- Duncan Earle