According to the chamber’s official website, the uling -which reforms, adds and repeals Article 2 of the Constitution – establishes that these citizens are also subjects with their own legal personality and heritage, who deserve unrestricted respect for their human rights.

It also envisions a new constitution for indigenous peoples and communities within the current Magna Carta, and admits the nation’s multiethnic nature.

The new Law’s Artcicle 3 vest indigenous peoples and communities with the right to participate in devising educational models that recognize the multicultural composition of the nation based on their cultures, languages and teaching and learning methods.

Also to develop, practice, strengthen and promote traditional medicine, as well as midwifery for the care of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, while recognizing the people who practice them, including their knowledge and health practices, refered the text.

Among other issues, it also ensures the right of indigenous and Afro-Mexican women to participate effectively and on equal terms in the comprehensive development processes of their peoples and communities and in public decision-making.

They will also be entitled to promote and respect their access to education, health, property and land ownership and other human rights.

In the words of Congresswoman Vanessa Lopez (Partido del Trabajo), the initiative presented by the Executive on February 5 constitutes an opportunity to ‘pay off the historical debt’ to the native peoples of Mexico.

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