Center for Women's Rights Nääxwiin, AC
March 11, 2011
- Indigenous women suggest that the Land Office will meet with the women of the agrarian.
- Chief Resident of the Agrarian in Matías Romero acknowledges the importance that ejido assemblies will speak and recognize the land rights of women.
Indigenous women from 17 communities in the municipalities of Matías Romero, San Juan Guichicovi, Santiago and Santa María Ixtaltepec Petapa, convened by the Center for Women's Rights Nääxwiin to participate in the Forum for women's right to access to land, they analyzed the situation facing women mixes, Zapotec and Mixtec zoques regarding the land in the suburbs of the Oaxacan Isthmus. As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, recognized that their indigenous land is land, water, culture, tradition, natural resources, but also what is on earth and under the ground like mines and where their dead. "We come from the mother earth and corn, have life because we have land and is what allows us to live men and women. It's part of our roots, our identity and the struggle against colonialism in our territory. " "Our forefathers fought, sought a place to live, built houses, planted yams, cornfields, shallots, beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers. If the earth does not care and had not had food nutrients. Now that we are experiencing a food crisis we have to look for food and non-stop planting. " We, Zoila said Joseph, in our culture we have to respect Mother Earth, making the planting ritual, a way of thanks, take animals for slaughter.
The women expressed that all communities in the region inherited land law and parents prefer to leave the right hand of the children and not the daughters, some women have rights because they are widows and the community yields, but there are communities in which they prefer to allocate land to other ejido and not the widow's rights. They said that those who are ejidatarias are due to receive inheritance from their parents or grandparents as a commitment to care for them in old age and only a few because the law was ceded to them by their husbands, that on no account to land its name because the law or communities already promoted. Not having land in his own name brings several consequences for women, such as not having access to credit even if they care to work, clean, nurture, protect and cultivate the land. When men migrate, those who take care of crops, animals and care for the land, mostly women, as are those who bear the welfare of their children. Yet women and men alike have been assessed or have had the same opportunities. That's not fair because women bring a lot of work, knowledge, knowledge, culture, life, family, community and country. They noted that it is common for husbands go to work elsewhere or simply stop taking the documents and sometimes sell plots or livestock without taking them into account, leaving unprotected along with their sons and daughters.
The representative of the Agrarian in the area emphasized that the law recognizes men and women the right to have his name a lot, and that if a district member has a law degree and wants to sell agricultural plot must notify in writing to his wife and the contract must be attached notice of wife and children as a right of both, so he recognized the need for in ejido assemblies to speak of the land rights of women and recognize these rights. At the same time accepted that women in this region face serious problems related to land rights as serving 10 cases, seven or eight are women who come looking for protection because their husbands were and took the documents of the plots.
Another problem is that the attendees noted that the land on which to build the family home is usually the woman's father, this brings a number of difficulties because they have no autonomy: the husband's family the monitors and meddles in all matters. When women live violence has no chance of staying in the house because the land is in the name of the father, if women do not want to live in this situation is common for relatives not to leave their belongings or take out the sons and daughters with it, if they are left out without a place to live and with little chance of getting a job when they have daughters or young children. The same happens when man does partner or marry another woman.
During the event, several women explained to the representative of the Agrarian the need to disseminate this instance the right of women to land, between the authorities agricultural community and assemblies because it is so common that they do not believe them. Moreover, they questioned the benefits of the PROCEED program "because in the villages where the program began there is no freedom to cut firewood, supply, because the land already has an owner. It is necessary that women have land for them to reap, we as women seek to stock up on firewood and water. "Apolinaria Santana, Coordinator of the House of Indigenous Women's Health, Manos Unidas Ometepec AC, Gro., Coincided with her colleagues in the isthmus in the state of Guerrero is living under similar conditions.
the end of the panel, the owner of the residence of the Agrarian in Matías Romero, undertakes to promote training in gender mainstreaming in the Technical Board of that agency and pay attention to those aspects that women demanded that the staff of that institution of a treatment for women taking into account their status as indigenous women. The municipal council areas and levels of Health and Gender Equity San Juan Guichicovi, Human Rights and Gender Equality Juchitán, and the representative of the Health Center in Matías Romero agreed to work on their bodies and between institutions to women and men to receive care without discrimination gender, and moreover declared committed to taking forward in the indigenous communities awareness of the right of women to land. As these organizations as the Regional Shelter for Women in situation of violence, the Centre for Women's Rights and the House Nääxwiin Indigenous Women's Health, Manos Unidas BC, confirmed their commitment to organize, to walk together and between all women to fight and continue to defend the right of women to access to land and other rights that women have. Later
as a result of work tables, participants agreed to train the different communities together with other women and ejido authorities often unaware of their rights and gradually find that participation in the assemblies no longer a space-making among men and they also listen to them. In ejido assemblies, they said, only those eligible participate ejido, that most are men, but when there are land disputes, is called in general: ejidatarios and settlers, men and women. So it's not fair to deny women the right to participate in the meetings concluded.
Estela Velez Manuel
President of the Board
Center for Women's Rights Nääxwiin.
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