Implementation and Practice of Indigenous Rights: The Case of the Mayan Group of the State of Quintana Roo
Journal Title: The Age of Human Rights Journal - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue 10
Abstract
Since 1997, the Mexican government has founded in the province of Quintana Roo a traditional style of justice instituted on a previous indigenous Mayan traditional legal system. This article provides a reflection about the way the Mayan justice has been recognized and implemented in the state of Quintana Roo, based on the incorporation of the rights derived from the ILO Convention 169 signed by Mexico in the last century. Mexico possesses and recognizes the Mayan legal system, but with some additions which causes the existence of two different structures the traditional and the new one which coexist in the same social field at the same time.
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José Israel Herrera
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