30/11/2011
At the beginning of November, the Washington Office on Latin American Affairs (WOLA) presented a report on the Mérida Initiative, part of the cooperation of the […]
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
30/11/2011
In January of this year, the Mexican government declared 2011 as “the year of tourism,” toward the end of “aligning all related sectors with this activity […]
30/11/2011
29 September 2011: Eleven of the indigenous prisoners held in the San Cristóbal de Las Casas prison saw no other option than to subject themselves to […]
30/11/2011
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone On 1 October, we attended the celebration organized in the community of Masojá Shucjá, municipality of Tila, to observe […]
31/08/2011
From 2 to 9 July, Navathem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, visited Mexico on a six-day trip. Upon concluding, she expressed special concern […]
31/08/2011
In recent months, the situation of insecurity and violence that is lived in Mexico has led different sectors of civil society to organize itself and manifest […]
31/08/2011
A wave of social desperation is expanding in different latitudes: the demands base themselves in elemental necessities. The mobilizations have erupted from within unsustainable situations, supported […]
31/08/2011
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT CHIAPAS Northern Zone At the end of May, we visited several communities from the zone below Tila so as to hold interviews […]
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 […]
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 […]