The first module of the Citizen School for the Right to Health/Chimaltenango concluded with feedback focused on national and international legal instruments that protect the right to health.

Participants were invited to reflect on the most relevant concepts and to identify new learning acquired. Among the questions that guided this reflection were: What do I know?, What did I learn? y What would you like to know more about?

Significant comments emerged during the session. Vanesa, one of the participants, expressed: “For us, as native peoples, exercising this right is difficult due to the discrimination we face. We must be informed in order to exercise our rights without allowing agencies to repress us.” Franklin added: “What I am learning in this module is how to put the knowledge into practice to exercise our rights and make sure that this right to health is not taken away from us”.

In addition, key articles such as 93 and 94 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala, ILO Convention 169, and paragraphs a) and b) of the CEDAW were reviewed.

The closing of the module allowed a deep reflection on Human Rights, emphasizing the dignity and value of people. International and national instruments, together with the Political Constitution, were highlighted as essential tools to question, denounce, debate and demand the fulfillment of these rights in everyday life.