02/06/2015
Transnational migration is a sharply expanding phenomenon. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people attempt to cross into the United States in search of work, income, […]
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
21/02/2015
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Highlands On 21 and 22 December, we attended the series of activities organized by the Las Abejas Civil Society to observe […]
21/02/2015
“What we want is to return. Because our lands and homes are there; all of our belongings are still there.”Petrona López Girón, displaced from Banavil “I […]
21/02/2015
“Investigative work is risky. These are issues that challenge the situation of those in high-ranking positions. We do this out of conviction, but it is a […]
21/02/2015
The forced disappearance of the 43 students from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, in September, and the scandals involving property sold by the Higa […]
24/11/2014
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone In October , we visited the Northern region of the state, mainly the municipalities of Yajalón, Tila and Palenque […]
24/11/2014
“It does not bring development for the original peoples. Only death, depression, division. Only money for the wealthy transnationals.”(Meeting in ejido Los Llanos, San Cristobal de […]
24/11/2014
“What does a government reap that sows students in the ground?”, “A government that murders our children does not deserve our forgiveness much less our silence” […]
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 […]
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 […]