The Defensoría de la Mujer Indígena, DEMI, is an achievement in the struggle of organized indigenous women, according to a government entity that reports directly to the Presidency of the Republic, whose objective is to address situations of discrimination and vulnerability of indigenous women by promoting the full exercise of their rights.

The present study had as general objective "to document the value of the application of ancestral practices carried out by midwives and traditional therapists1 for integral health from the paradigm of Good Living". The specific objectives were: a) to describe the main ancestral practices carried out by midwives and therapists, b) to analyze the contribution of the application of ancestral practices of indigenous medicine carried out by midwives and Mayan therapists, for integral health from the conceptualization of Good Living. , and c) analyze the elements of the practices of midwives and therapists that, from a depatriarchal vision, favor changes in the condition and position of women.

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Nim Alaxik, is a national movement of grandmother midwives, which was born in 2010, and grew stronger in 2016 and 2017. The Movement arose when Mayan Kaqchikel, Kiche, Tuztujil, Mam midwives met to talk about their work , of the service they gave since time immemorial to a large number of families, communities and the country in general. But, they shared a great concern and indignation, and that is that the official health system, far from recognizing their work, persecuted, controlled, despised and discriminated deeply. After several years of work, the Nim Alaxik movement has grown. It was born with the representation of 5 departments and now it is made up of midwives from the 22 departments of the country, who are organized in Departmental Councils of Midwives. Nim Alaxik also emerged as a Movement of Mayan Midwives, but now it is a Movement of Mayan, Xinca, Garífuna and Mestiza midwives.

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Observatory of Rights of Indigenous Women of Guatemala, seeks that indigenous women are articulated and strengthened in the appropriation, exercise and defense of Individual and Collective Rights for their Utz K'aslemal (live well).

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