Population Languages Extreme poverty Education Labor

Population Languages Extreme poverty Education Labor

People, communities and nation who are native to a particular area

370 million indigenous people in 90 countries

Peru, Mexico, Bolivia and Guatemala from 4.6 to 8.4 million people

Chile 500,000 and one million Nicaragua or El Salvador less than half a

million

A thousand different indigenous languages. Such as

Quechua Avmara Guarani Nahuatl Mayan

7,000 languages disappear

5 % of the world's population

15 % poor 1994-2004

Bolivia and Guatemala half

Ecuador 87 % reaches 96 % in rural highlands

Mexico. in 2002 was 4.5 times higher than non- indigenous

2008 – Peru 39.3%

Peru 94.4 % of children between the ages of 6 and 11 are enrolled in school Gender or poverty level Rural areas enrollment higher by three-tenths

Guatemala 69% Organizations is partnering with

Guatemalan 175 community radio stations news, educational programming, health

information, traditional music reinforcing Mayan heritage

1.3 million people in Latin America. Wage advances and other manipulations

Debt Long hours Trapping Peru for illegal logging, in Bolivia for nut

collection, in cattle farms and sugar plantations, and in Paraguay’s traditional cattle farms of the Chaco region.

World Wildlife Fund named 200 places with the highest biodiversity

95 % Indigenous territories Raided

Minerals Timber Farmland Oil

Land linked to their identity and spiritual meaning.

2007 the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Right live on and use their traditional territories self-determination informed consent before any outside project is

undertaken on their land keep their languages cultural practices full government services treated as peoples

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