ABSTRACT As the pandemic reveals how multiple intersecting inequalities affect public health, the work of rural activists defending their communities' rights to health, land, and gender, ethnic and environmental justice demonstrate how intersectional analysis can be put into practice. In the interviews that follow, Guatemalan Maya Tz'utujil activists Paulina Culum and Benilda Batzin describe how ‘health rights defenders’ seek justice for rural indigenous communities – work that the pandemic makes more critical than ever. Their strategies and insights have implications for addressing rural health rights around the world.

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农村公共卫生系统和问责政治：危地马拉基层健康权利维护者的见解

摘要 由于大流行揭示了多重交叉的不平等如何影响公共卫生，农村活动家捍卫其社区的健康、土地和性别、种族和环境正义权利的工作展示了如何将交叉分析付诸实践。在接下来的采访中，危地马拉 Maya Tz'utujil 活动家 Paulina Culum 和 Benilda Batzin 描述了“健康权利捍卫者”如何为农村土著社区寻求正义——大流行使这项工作变得比以往任何时候都更加重要。他们的战略和见解对解决世界各地的农村健康权利具有重要意义。