Photo: PBI-Mexico accompanies the Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water at the first Assembly of Cholultec Peoples convened by the Union of Peoples and Subdivisions against the Sanitary Landfill and in Defense of Life to reaffirm their rights to self-determination and autonomy; May 14, 2024.
On August 10, PBI-Mexico posted on Facebook:
“For yesterday, the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, we salute the indigenous communities and peoples who struggle daily for human rights, in defense of territory and water, and for respect for the rights of autonomy and self-determination of indigenous peoples. At PBI Mexico, we reaffirm our commitment to respect and guarantee the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples in Mexico, as contemplated in Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This right to self-determination is being exercised by the Peoples’ Front Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala together with other peoples and communities of the Cholulteca region, co-convening the First Assembly of the Cholulteca Peoples, where the Cholulteca peoples reaffirmed their rights to self-determination and autonomy, as well as their collective commitment to life, against the San Pedro Cholula intermunicipal sanitary landfill.”
Every August 9 commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, chosen in recognition of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva in 1982.
Accompaniment
PBI-Mexico has accompanied the Peoples’ Front since early 2020. In August 2022, that accompaniment was extended for another three years.
Further reading: PBI-Mexico accompanies Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water at highway blockade at Cholula garbage dump (March 22, 2024)
Video: PBI-Mexico with Indigenous Nahua land defender Miryam Vargas Teutle of the Peoples’ Front (December 18, 2023).
