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Now is the Hardest Time
By: Krillian
Posted: Jul 6 07
Witnessed: 12532 times
Regions: Mexico
Issues: Housing, Poverty
Tags: indigenous, Mexico, oaxaca, Poverty, reproductive rights
La Unión de Comunidades Indígenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo (UCIZONI) se constituyó legalmente en Junio de 1985, aunque las primeras acciones organizativas se remontan a 1979. UCIZONI agrupa en la actualidad a 84 comunidades y colonias mixes, zapotecas, zoques, chinantecas, barreñas, mixtecas y mestizas de 9 municipios del Estado de Oaxaca en la región del Istmo de Tehuantepec.
Los trabajos que realiza nuestra organización son los siguientes:
1).Defensoría legal y promoción de Derechos Humanos.
2).Defensa y regularización de tierras indígenas.
3). Acciones de salud y en particular combate al cáncer cervicouterino.
4). Acciones de vivienda.
5). Programas productivos (totopo, maíz, ganado bovino, ovino, porcino, café, artesanías, achiote, naranja, chile, entre otros:)
6).Gestión y Diseño de obras de equipamiento comunitario e infraestructura: caminos, agua potable, escuelas, edificios públicos, clínicas, etc.
7).Programas de reforestación.
8). Acciones de promoción y defensa cultural.
9). Impulsa el respeto a los derechos políticos, impulsa la democratización, la solidaridad, y la equidad entre hombres y mujeres.
UCIZONI forma parte del Congreso Nacional Indígena, la Red Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas, Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones Cafetaleras, Coordinadora Estatal de Productores de Café de Oaxaca , Foro Estatal Indígena Permanente de Oaxaca entre otras.
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