CNDH Presents: Diploma Course on Human Rights Training for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Communities.
It seeks to strengthen the institutional commitment with the original roots of our Mexico and with our Afro-descendant brotherhood.
Inaugurating the second edition of Diploma Course on Human Rights Training for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Communities, the president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Rosario Piedra Ibarra, called for the promotion of activities to analyze the discrimination and violence situation faced by members of these peoples, in order to generate strategies to promote and respect their human rights, as well as to carry out actions to protect their integrity from abuses of authority and any act that harms their peaceful coexistence, dignity and way of life.
The National Ombudsperson indicated that the Diploma Course aims to consolidate itself as a pedagogical melting pot where knowledge, successful experiences and legal tools Flow to enable this society sectors to exercise their rights to the top, for which it has the participation of 23 State Human Rights Commissions and organizations in the country, members of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Subsystem of Intercultural Universities.
During the event —held virtually and in which she was accompanied by the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Francisco Cali Tzay; the president of the National Subsystem of Intercultural Universities, Sergio Gamboa Cortés; the rector of the Intercultural University of the State of Puebla, Guillermo Garrido Cruz; the director of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the UNAM, Mary Frances Teresa Rodríguez Van Gort, and heads of Public Human Rights Organizations from different entities—, she affirmed that activities such as this strengthen Mexico’s National system for the promotion, protection and defense of human rights.
More information:
https://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/default/files/documentos/2021-05/COM_2021_142.pdf