SIPAZ – Quaterly Report

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Chiapas, Southern Border © SIPAZ
19/12/2019
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LATEST: Mexico “happy, happy, happy”?

September marked three months since the governments of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and Donald Trump reached an agreement in which Mexico undertook measures to lower the level of migration that crosses its territory to reach the United States.
19/12/2019
27/09/2019
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Community reconstruction on the Coast © SweFOR
27/09/2019
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ARTICLE: Earthquakes – Community Reconstruction as an Alternative Route

The night of September 7, 2017 represents a traumatic moment in the lives of tens of thousands of people, when a magnitude 8.2 earthquake shook the coastal areas of Chiapas and Oaxaca, leaving 102 people dead, thousands homeless, and the region in chaos.
27/09/2019
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27/09/2019
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FOCUS: Between deforestation and poor reforestation – Mexico, a country of authorized ecological destruction

Currently, 30 to 35% of Mexican territory is covered with forests and jungles. Despite having great natural wealth, Mexico suffers from one of the highest deforestation rates on the planet.
27/09/2019
13/03/2019
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Popular Community Trial against the State and Mining Companies in Oaxaca © SIPAZ
13/03/2019
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ARTICLE: Final Ruling of the “Peoples’ Community Trial against the State and Mining Companies in Oaxaca”, Testing a New Form of Struggle For the Defense of Territory

In the framework of International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2018, the peoples, communities, and organizations that participated in the "Popular Community Trial Against the State and Mining Companies in Oaxaca" that took place on November 11 and October 12 of last year, publicly presented the final ruling.
13/03/2019
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13/03/2019
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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.
13/03/2019