The Norwegian Human Rights Fund supports many organizations who works with indigenous communities on land, territory and environmental rights. In Mexico, more than half of the organizations that we support work with indigenous peoples, especially with the promotion and protection of the rights to:
- Health
- Food
- Defense against megaprojects
- Protecting local ways of living
- Working against violence against women
- The strengthening of women and youth participation in local communities, as well as for the protection of community leaders.
Some of the organizations that we support provide psycho-social support, labor rights, torture cases, and some work on gender protocols too.
On this day, the NHRF takes the opportunity to celebrate the diversity that indigenous communities have and to highlight the importance of respecting their cultures and ways of living. We will keep supporting our grantee partners in different countries who are contributing to indigenous communities being more aware of their rights, as well as supporting their work on land, territory and environmental rights and claiming their basic right to self-determination of peoples engrained in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter.
Main photo: CONTEC.