Civil Commission Denounces Rights Violations Against Sonora's Yaqui Tribe Clayton Conn - Television del Sur
go to original February 12, 2015

Rights groups delivered report on Yaquis to Mexico’s Supreme Court (teleSUR English)

Civil and human rights organizations along with representatives of the indigenous Yaqui Tribe delivered to Mexico’s Supreme Court, a report documenting what they affirm are a list of human rights violations committed against the northern Mexican native group by Sonora State and federal authorities.

According to the Civil Mission of Observation, the 2014-2015 report “exposes the grave human rights violations against the Yaqui Tribe such as the right to prior consultation to the construction, authorization and operation of the Independence Aqueduct.”

...The mega-project transports more than 60 million cubic meters of water per year from the Novillo dam, which is fed by the Yaqui River, to supply the growing urban complexes of Hermosillo, Sonora and the agro-industry in the region.

According to the Yaqui and activists, the project openly violates a 1940 presidential decree by then president Lazaro Cardenas, which guarantees that at least 50 percent of the water from the Yaqui River pertains to the Yaqui Tribe.

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