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class="post_description"> <span class="post_infos">  <span class="date">Published Friday, July 2017</span> </div> <h2>Indigenous communities win land rights victory in Mexico’s federal court</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">In 2011, the indigenous Júba Wajiín community learned that the Guerrero state government had granted mining rights to two companies. The rights—which would encompass 80% of the indigenous community’s lands—had been granted without consultation with the Júba Wajiín. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">The Mexican constitution guarantees that indigenous communities will be asked about how their land can be developed or used. As the community built a legal challenge to the mining contract, the government tried to argue that they weren’t, in fact, an indigenous community and therefore had no right to protest the arrangement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">For the past five years, WITNESS has been working with the Júba Wajiín community to tell their story and defend their land. We helped </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3gul9VzRS8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400">create videos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> including “Júba Wajiín: Resistance in the Mountain of Guerrero,” supporting their land rights case. One of the videos targeted the Supreme Court judge overseeing the case. It focused on proving that the Júba Wajiín were, in fact, indigenous people since that was being contested by the government. Scenes included in the video showed traditional lifestyle, farming, native languages, and customs. And we helped them show how mining would destroy their land and livelihoods.</span></p> <span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WhDnjcFkPEY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">The video was a crucial part of the Júba Wajiín’s </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYvWmM6vJa4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400">biggest victory</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> in July 2017, when the federal court ruled the Mexican state has a constitutional obligation to respect indigenous land rights, and that mining operations could not continue without the community’s input. </span><a href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2017/07/15/politica/010n1pol" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400">An ally noted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> that the ruling is an “unprecedented achievement” for indigenous land rights activists working against open-pit mining, adding that, for the first time, the Ministry of Economy “must comply with its constitutional and conventional obligations regarding the rights of indigenous peoples” when considering mining rights.</span><br /> <img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="2195409" data-permalink="https://www.witness.org/2192736-2/jubawajiin_scjn/" data-orig-file="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN.jpeg" data-orig-size="1280,960" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="JubaWajiin_SCJN" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN-300x225.jpeg" data-large-file="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN-1024x768.jpeg" class="size-medium wp-image-2195409 aligncenter" src="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN-300x225.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.witness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/JubaWajiin_SCJN.jpeg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><br /> <span style="font-weight: 400">After the historic ruling in 2017, the Ministry of Economy appealed the decision. The appeal currently rests in the hands of the Circuit Court in Acapulco, Guerrero state’s capital. In order to highlight the importance of this case and make sure that the Júba Wajiín secure justice, WITNESS and Valerio Amado Mauro, President of Communal Property of Júba Wajiín screened the documentary at a film festival organized and hosted by the Mexican Supreme Court. At the screening, the community’s lawyer called upon the Court to bring about a final resolution to the case. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">With this collective effort, WITNESS helped ensure that the voices of the Júba Wajiín were heard by Mexico’s highest court, by lawmakers, fellow citizens and grassroots activists. 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