Venezuelan Chapter of the Indigenous Parliament of the Americas strengthens actions for its peoples

This Tuesday an ordinary session was held through a videoconference of the Indigenous Parliament of the Americas – Venezuelan chapter in Caracas, with the aim of exposing the advances and rapprochement in international matters with the Presidency of the Indigenous and Afro-descendant Parliaments of the Americas.

The session was attended by the first vice president of the indigenous parliamentary institution, Kariela Aray, who highlighted the effort of all the legislators and deputies of the National Assembly, for the construction of this process and a new path that she is undertaking with great force together with this intuition for the benefit and care of our indigenous peoples, at the international level.

She also expressed that from the presidency of the PIA-GPV we have made approaches to the Indigenous Parliament of the Continental Americas, “we have been acknowledged and directed to the construction of collective works by indigenous peoples”.

During the meeting was also discussed the Partial Reform of the Law on Indigenous Languages ​​approved in the first and second discussion.

In this sense, the second vice president of the institution, Nelson Mavio, pointed out that this Partial Reform was made to 8 articles and approved in a second discussion on August 26, 2021.

Mavio stressed that the scope of the competition in one of the articles, “has to do with all the advice with the body, which in it generates a responsibility such as the Institute of Indigenous Languages.”