02/04/2018
SIPAZ Activities (mid-November, 2017 to mid-February, 2018)
UPDATE: Mexico – Legislative agenda: one step forward, several steps back
IN FOCUS: Indigenous Peoples – “Great challenges and obstacles for the effective enjoyment of their rights”
ARTICLE: Jtatic Samuel Jcanan Lum Recognition Award – “we will be the ones below … those who will build a better tomorrow”
SIPAZ Activities (mid-November, 2017 to mid-February, 2018)
02/04/2018
On January 2-, San Cristobal de las Casas received the lawyer and human rights defender Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, to give him the 2018 JTatic Samuel Jcanan Lum Recognition Award.
02/04/2018
From November - to 1-, 2017, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, indigenous from the Philippines and United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, paid an official visit to Mexico.
02/04/2018
In November, the General Law on Enforced Disappearances and Disappearances by Individuals was promulgated. The Movement for Our Disappeared affirmed that, "it is a sign of goodwill in the face of the magnitude of the disappearance crisis."