Living conditions on Urban Indigenous people in the context of the millenium development goals

DEL POPOLO, FABIANA; OYARCE, ANA MARÍA Y RIBOTTA, BRUNO

Indigenous peoples and urban settlements: spatial distribution, internal migration and living conditions

CEPAL / CELADE

Lugar: Santiago de Chile; Año: 2008; p. 55 - 80

The new challenge for governments is to design and implement public policies that promote, guarantee and allow compliance with international standards of indigenous peoples rights. These rights go beyond rural-urban division; for this reason, the data presented here cover both areas, not only in order to quantify geographical gaps, but also on the understanding that urban indigenous groups are part of a unit, peoples who have collective rights. This rights-based perspective involves a re-reading of equity gaps, as poverty, marginality and social exclusion, which affect a relatively larger proportionof these persons, are a violation of their human rights (ECLAC, 2006a). The follow-up and evaluation of these standards requires the production of public information, statistics, and systems of indicators that are reliable, timely and culturally relevant. In this context, the overall objective of this document is to describe the living conditions of Latin American indigenous peoples in an urban context, based on the censuses of the 2000 round. As the nations of the world have committed themselves to improving human well-being on the planet by signing the Millennium Declaration (New York, September 2000), this overview is offered in the context of the Millennium DevelopmentGoals (the Goals) which were derived from that Declaration.