International day of indigenous women

Indigenous women: common path towards a new society.

The international day of indigenous women (September 5) was established in the year 1983, in honor of the struggle of Bartolina Sisa, indigenous Aymara, who fought against the oppression of the conquerors, and she was brutally murdered by the Spanish forces in peace, Bolivia.
 

The situation of the rights of indigenous women in Latin America is currently conditioned by a structural problem: indigenous peoples are not considered as subjects of rights and this is verified in the implementation of the mechanisms for consultation on the basis of Convention No.. 169 of the ILO. Indigenous peoples, as they are considered an obstacle for development models based on the extraction, which has gained a new momentum in recent decades.

While the region has not suffered the ravages of the global economic crisis, this has not improved social and economic conditions of indigenous peoples, whose territories largely comes from the wealth that is keeping the economies of the region.

The main progress in the exercise of the rights process translates into the growing organization of the indigenous women's movement that transcends national to the international level.