24/11/2014
Marches in solidarity with Ayotzinapa in San Cristóbal de las Casas and Mexico City– November 20, 2014 © SIPAZ Three violent events in recent months have […]
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
05/09/2014
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone On 18 July, we attended the pre-audience of the Peoples’ Permanent Tribunal (TPP) “With Justice and Peace we will […]
05/09/2014
On 25 and 26 July, the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights celebrated its twentieth anniversary in Comonfort, Guerrero: “In 1994, in a small hotel room […]
05/09/2014
“I did not want to leave. If it had not been for the violence and lack of work, I would have stayed in my country. I […]
05/09/2014
While the structural reforms that have been promoted by President Enrique Peña Nieto continue to advance through the approval of secondary laws (particularly in the energy […]
21/05/2014
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone At the beginning of April, we visited communities below Tila and in Palenque for a week, holding interviews with […]
21/05/2014
“The international organizations that engage in accompaniment are vital for the work of human-rights defenders […] given that they not only accompany […]
21/05/2014
“All the methods that [indigenous] peoples traditionally use to judge crimes committed against their members should be respected.” Article 9.1 of […]
21/05/2014
One of the most relevant happenings in the past months has been the arrest of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo,” the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, […]
21/02/2014
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone On 6 and 7 December, we attended the pre-audience of the People’s Permanent Tribunal (TPP) Mexico chapter, part of […]
21/02/2014
“Amidst the power of the transnational firms and the governments allied and complicit with these, […] it is necessary that we have […]
21/02/2014
Tyempä Cha’an Ysacla’tiel Melelä (Ch’ol)Tsomblej yu’un melelil xchi´uk lekil chapanel (Tsotsil)Tzoblej ye´un xcholel chápanel sol´ jmelelil (Tseltal) On 6 and 7 December 2013, the Mexican State […]
21/02/2014
At the beginning of 2013, several analysts used the expression “the Mexican moment” in reference to the expectations generated by the change in federal administration. The […]
26/11/2013
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone In September, we carried out a one-week visit to the Northern Zone. We attended an assembly organized by the […]
26/11/2013
“All of our rights were washed away by the rains” – member of a civil organization in Guerrero The state of Guerrero was cut off for […]
26/11/2013
As a number of reports have illustrated in recent months, the situation of violence against women in Mexico is far from being resolved. These reports speak […]