On November 16, 2022, the Mexican non-profit organization, PSYDEH A.C. (Psychology and Human Rights) produced the 6th edition of its unprecedented public forum series with mostly Indigenous women leaders of the Otomí-Tepehua-Nahua Region of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. During this meeting held in the municipality of San Bartolo Tutotepec, Hidalgo, PSYDEH women staff presented this Declaration of Indigenous women and their communities and social organizations of the Region.

This Declaration contains the human rights-oriented demands of the majority-Indigenous women, communities and social organizations of the Otomí-Tepehua- Nahua Region of Hidalgo, Mexico. It is based on the seven themes of PSYDEH’s Women Citizen Agenda, a distillation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda’s 17 goals: Education, Health, Economy, Justice, Environment, Citizen Participation and Gender Diversity.

The female citizens’ collective declaration captures the desire to live with dignity and have a better future for women, their families and their communities. It will be a key tool for 2023-2024 programming linking, bridging and bonding women leaders, their cooperatives and their rural communities with government officials at local, state, national and international levels.