29/04/2011
The violence that has overtaken Mexico in recent years, far from ceasing to be news, continues being the question of most concern for the nation. On […]
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
29/04/2011
For the past 14 years, March 14 is celebrated globally as the International Day of Action against Dams. This year in Mexico several activities and marches […]
29/04/2011
This year in Chiapas women and men united to celebrate the centennial of the institution of International Women’s Day. During 7 and 8 March, some 5000 […]
29/04/2011
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Highlands In March, SIPAZ visited Margarita Martínez, human-rights defender who has received several death-threats and been attacked over the past year. […]
28/02/2011
The declassification by Wikileaks (an Internet site dedicated to the publication of classified information) of the internal correspondence of the U.S. State Department produced rarely seen […]
28/02/2011
Newspaper headline in September 2006 “APPO and teachers take over; Oaxaca, curfew” © SIPAZ, archivo In November 2010, SIPAZ presented a Report during an event organized […]
28/02/2011
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone In January, we accompanied an ex- SIPAZ team member who put on puppet shows regarding the theme of reconciliation […]
28/02/2011
Since 26 January the remains of Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia have lain on the altar of the cathedral of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Thousands of […]
30/12/2010
On Oct. 18, president Felipe Calderon proposed a reform to the legal code pertaining to military and legislative justice. Mexican civil society had called for reform […]
30/12/2010
In light of the imminent sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16) on climate change that will be held at the end of November in Cancún, the International […]
30/12/2010
“We have seen aspects of culture that should be maintained from our ancestors but that the customs of some communities aren’t all […]
30/12/2010
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone In September and October, we visited several communities in the zone below Tila to interview different actors of the […]
30/07/2010
On 4 July elections were held for mayorships, state-congresses, and governors’ positions in 12 states of the Mexican Republic in addition to local-council and state-congresses elsewhere. […]
30/07/2010
Guerrero is one of the states of the Mexican Republic in which levels of violence have exploded since the onset of the “war on drugs” declared […]
30/07/2010
“There are men who struggle for a day and are good. There are others who struggle for a year who are better. […]
30/07/2010
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone SIPAZ visited some of the communities in the region below Tila at the beginning of August. Highlands SIPAZ met […]