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
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
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.
14/07/2018
In April, the Senate ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP-11 or CPTPP), Mexico being the first country of those participating to do so.
02/04/2018
SIPAZ Activities (mid-November, 2017 to mid-February, 2018)
02/04/2018
On January 2-, San Cristobal de las Casas received the lawyer and human rights defender Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, to give him the 2018 JTatic Samuel Jcanan Lum Recognition Award.
02/04/2018
From November - to 1-, 2017, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, indigenous from the Philippines and United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, paid an official visit to Mexico.
02/04/2018
In November, the General Law on Enforced Disappearances and Disappearances by Individuals was promulgated. The Movement for Our Disappeared affirmed that, "it is a sign of goodwill in the face of the magnitude of the disappearance crisis."
11/01/2018
SIPAZ Activities (From mid-August to mid-November, 2017)
11/01/2018
On September 7th, 2017, an earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale devastated Oaxaca, affecting the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and part of Chiapas, especially the coast: the two poorest states in the country.
11/01/2018
The conservation, recovery and care of natural resources concern us all, without distinction of country, continent, occupation, social class, race or religion: THE EARTH CANNOT TAKE MORE.