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  • Chiapas/National: EZLN calls for a preparatory meeting before its trip to Mexico City
    by SIPAZ on 23/09/2026 at 18:31

    The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) has called for an informational and preparatory meeting to organize a trip that a Zapatista delegation will make to Mexico City during December 2026 and January 2027, which will include meetings with collectives of families searching for missing persons. The session will take place on October 2, 3,

  • International/National: Global Witness publishes new report on violence against environmental defenders.
    by SIPAZ on 22/09/2026 at 17:43

    On September 16, the civil society organization Global Witness published its annual report, “Collective Power: The Fight to Protect Land and Environmental Defenders,” analyzing violence against land and environmental defenders during 2025. The document notes that at least 124 people worldwide were killed for defending their environmental rights. Latin America remained the most dangerous region,

  • OAXACA: Triqui language advocate attacked
    by SIPAZ on 21/09/2026 at 17:34

    @El Universal In the early hours of September 16, teacher and community activist Misael Hernández Mendoza and his three-year-old daughter were shot in San Andrés Chicahuaxtla, Oaxaca. Hernández has worked for over 15 years on the preservation and promotion of the Triqui language, particularly through educational projects and digital tools. Following the attack, his daughter

  • NATIONAL: Violence against women: New cases in various regions of Mexico
    by SIPAZ on 18/09/2026 at 19:45

    @El Universal In recent weeks, various states in Mexico have reported new cases of femicide, while authorities and organizations continue to highlight the need to strengthen prevention, investigation, and access to justice for women. In Sinaloa, the State Attorney General’s Office reported that 14 investigations into femicide were opened in September, primarily in Escuinapa, Culiacán,

SIPAZ Report Vol XXXI Nº 2 – June 2026

Previous Report

16/06/2026

LATEST: Fentanyl, Migration, and Tariffs Continue to Strain Bilateral Agenda Between Mexico and United States

In recent months, the relationship between Mexico and the United States has been marked by cooperation on security and border control, but also by sustained trade tensions and strong concerns regarding human rights.
16/06/2026

FOCUS: “Chiapas, Pending Peace”

On May 30th, the “Border Region Working Group” (GTRF), a network of civil society organizations of which SIPAZ is a member, publicly presented the report “Chiapas, Pending Peace,” an analysis of the situation of violence and human rights in the Sierra Frontera region of Chiapas during 2025.
16/06/2026

ARTICLE: International Accompaniment, a Tool that Remains Valid despite Contextual Changes

Although the quote with which we opened this article refers to the project of the Civil Peace Camps (CCP) and later the Civil Peace Brigades (BriCOs) developed by the Coordination of Non-Governmental Organizations for Peace (CONPAZ) and by the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) in Chiapas after the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994, it also refers to the backbone of what a year later was to become the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ): international accompaniment.

Important Dates

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Peace Process, War Process

Brief history of the conflict in Chiapas

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