22/06/2019
Both during the electoral campaign and after his victory in 2018, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) promised a great transformation of Mexico.
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
13/03/2019
From mid-November 2018 to mid-February 2019
13/03/2019
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
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
On December 1, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took office as president of Mexico.
11/12/2018
11/12/2018
October 19, 2018 marked the day in which the migrant exodus, popularly known as the migrant caravan, made the migration phenomenon of Central America visible in an unexpected way.
11/12/2018
Journalist Mario Leonel Gomez Sanchez, correspondent for El Heraldo de Chiapas, was murdered in Yajalon. Months before, he had filed a complaint to the State Attorney General's Office regarding death threats against him.
11/12/2018
Since October 19, thousands of migrants including women, children, and the elderly have begun entering Mexico in caravans with the intention of reaching the United States
22/09/2018
In Mexico, historic elections took place on July 1st which included a record number of political races: 18,311 public offices on the federal, state, and municipal level. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), candidate for the coalition “Together we Will Make History” formed by the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Labor Party (PT), and the Social Encounter Party (PES), was elected president of the Republic by a margin never seen before in Mexico: he won 53% of the vote.
22/09/2018
The year 2017 ended in Mexico with dramatic figures in terms of forced displacement due to violence. Never before, since the armed conflict of 1994, have such worrying figures been reached in states like Chiapas.
22/09/2018
In a pluricultural state such as Chiapas, home to the largest diversity of indigenous peoples in Mexico, the struggle for the right to self-determination and autonomy of the people is a historical struggle, which was articulated as one of the central demands of the Zapatistas in the San Andres Accords on indigenous rights and culture in the nineties.
22/09/2018
14/07/2018
14/07/2018
Del 8 a 10 de marzo de 2018 tomo lugar el Primer Encuentro Internacional, Político, Artístico, Deportivo y Cultural de Mujeres que Luchan en el Caracol de Morelia, zona de Tzotz Choj, Chiapas, que fue organizado colectivamente por las mujeres zapatistas de los cinco Caracoles.
14/07/2018
The worldwide migration crisis is undeniable and has been exacerbated by laws and agreements focused only on the control of the borders of the countries that receive migrants and refugees, and not on respect for human rights, a value that all nations say they share.