Guatemalan indigenous groups seek constitutional recognition of right to land, justice system

<h3 class="op-kicker"><div itemprop="description alternativeHeadline" class="subtitle">Indigenous groups demand that their rights to land and ancestral justice systems be enshrined in a new constitution that recognizes Guatemala as plurinational.</div></h3><div itemprop="articleBody" class="txt_newworld"><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Guatemala-Indigenous-Campesinos-March-Against-State-Corruption-20160726-0014.html">Guatemala’s Indigenous population</a>&nbsp;is systematically excluded from society through racism, discrimination, and criminalization, rights organizations argue, which is why communities are rising up to demand a new Constitution to enshrine Indigenous rights to land, cultural autonomy, and self-determination, local media reported Wednesday.
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