ARTICLE: Documenting to Make Visible – El Obse de Chiapas Confronting Violence Against Human Rights Defenders

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ARTICLE: Documenting to Make Visible – El Obse de Chiapas Confronting Violence Against Human Rights Defenders

The situation in Chiapas presents a panorama marked by serious human rights violations. In recent years, the state has experienced an alarming increase in forced displacement, disappearances, the presence of armed groups, drug and human trafficking, and political violence.
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Presentation of the report "Chiapas, in the spiral of armed and criminal violence" © Frayba
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FOCUS: “Chiapas in the Spiral of Armed and Criminal Violence”

On March 19th, in the framework of its 36th anniversary, the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) presented its report "Chiapas, in the Spiral of Armed and Criminal Violence (Between Governmental Chaos, Organized Crime and the Paths of Struggle and Resistance)", which aims to leave a record of what happened in the state during the period from January 2023 to June 2024.
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NEWS: Mexico — a political agenda marked by the decrees of US President Donald Trump

Since taking office in January, US President Donald Trump has signed a host of executive orders, several of them with strong immediate or potential impacts worldwide and, in particular, in Mexico.
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Action by the Network for the Rights of Children (REDIM) in San Cristobal de Las Casas, San Cristobal de Las Casas, February 2024 © SIPAZ
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FOCUS: Violence against Children and Adolescents in Mexico. The Case of Chiapas

In recent years, due to its geographical location connecting the north with the south of the American continent, Chiapas has become a territory disputed by different criminal groups, which has led to an alarming increase in violence in the state to which the entire population is vulnerable.
21/12/2024
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Thousands of people of different nationalities prayed before moving forward in a new migrant caravan with the hope of reaching the United States. At the front, some carried a wooden cross, with a banner that read: "the exodus of poverty" © Damián Sánchez/cuartoscuro.com
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LATEST: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States” …

The elections in the United States revive the saying: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” The elected candidate, Donald Trump, has declared that he will impose a 25% tariff war against Mexico if Claudia Sheinbaum’s government fails to contain the flow of migrants and fentanyl trafficking across the 3,000 kilometers of border that both countries share.
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FOCUS: Violence against Children and Adolescents in Mexico – Reality and Responses

In November of 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (now ratified by all countries except the United States). The document, which rapidly became the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, lays out the rights of children (defined as anyone under the age of 18) and the duties that states have to protect these rights. The stated reality that children have inalienable human rights contrasts with older ideas of children being passive beings who need only to be cared for.
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