The struggle in which we women are currently engaged is aimed at providing a future for coming generations, a lasting guarantee for our cultures, which have existed for millenniums, and just recognition for pluricultural societies so that social equilibrium may thrive throughout the world. Indigenous peoples are rich in resources and wisdom, but they have been dispossessed. Their right to control over their own development must therefore be respected. We demand full recognition of our right to free self-determination and to autonomy regarding our territorial, social, economic, and political rights. We condemn the three-pronged discrimination that we suffer as Indigenous women living in poverty.
Discrimination is a form of violence.
Indigenous women must confront discrimination every day where they work and in their home lives. People think that we are unable to form opinions or make decisions. When we apply for jobs, we are rejected because we are Indigenous. We are used for nothing more than badly paid domestic work. Indigenous women are more subject to poverty.