03/10/2021

FOCUS: Escazu in the Mexican Environmental Context

The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (better known as the Escazu Agreement as it was adopted in the Costa Rican city of that name), is a pioneering legal instrument on environmental protection, and at the same time a human rights treaty that proposes a transformation of environmental governance.
18/03/2021

LATEST: Mexico – “A long way to go to exit human rights crisis”, Government

On December 10th, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Report “Second Year, A New Human Rights Policy and Presentation of the National Human Rights Program” was presented by the Ministry of the Interior.
02/06/2020

LATEST: Mexico – The risk of invisibility and aggravation of multiple pending human rights issues in the context of the pandemic

In April, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) presented his fifth quarterly report. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, he reported that this year there will be 22 million beneficiaries of the different social programs and that in nine months two million new jobs will be created, among others by the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) program.
19/12/2019

FOCUS: Mayan Train

In the middle of the month of November of this year, the government of the "Fourth Transformation" convened the authorities and representative institutions of the municipalities and indigenous communities belonging to the indigenous Maya, Ch'ol, Tseltal, and Tsotsil, among other groups, from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, located in the area of the "Mayan Train Development Project".