14/04/2017
ACTIVIDADES DE SIPAZ (De principios de noviembre de 2016 a finales de enero de 2017)
SIPAZ – Quaterly Report
14/04/2017
In November, SIPAZ had the opportunity to participate in the International Human Rights Observation Mission on the Guatemala-Mexico Border (MODH in its Spanish acronym), convened by the Cross-Border Migration and Gender Coordination Board (MTMG in its Spanish acronym) to raise awareness of human rights violations in this region.
14/04/2017
On January 1, 2017, from the Caracol of Oventik, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) publicly confirmed its decision to "to name an Indigenous Governing Council with men and women representatives from each one of the peoples, tribes, and nations that make up the CNI. (...) This council intends to govern this country. (...) This council will be presided over by an indigenous woman of the CNI, (...) which is to say, a woman of indigenous blood who knows her culture. This indigenous woman spokesperson from the CNI will be an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the 2018 elections."
14/04/2017
The night of November 8, 2016 shocked the whole world when, in spite of the forecasts and rejection by broad sectors both inside and outside the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.
09/01/2017
ACTIVIDADES DE SIPAZ (De principios de julio a finales de octubre de 2016)
09/01/2017
In October, SIPAZ had the privilege of traveling to the northern border (Mexico / United States) to participate in a binational Convergence and a tour where we had the opportunity to give presentations about the current socio-political context in southern Mexico, and had meetings with social actors, collectives, networks and human rights organizations in the states of Arizona, Michigan, Chicago, the District of Colombia, and Texas.
09/01/2017
From August 29th to September 7th, two representatives of the United Nations (UN) Working Group (WG) on Business and Human Rights, Pavel Sulyandziga (Russia) and Dante Pesce (Chile), made an official visit to Mexico that included the states of Mexico, Jalisco, Oaxaca, and Sonora.
09/01/2017
From July to September, the teachers' movement, opposed to the 2013 education reform bill, filled the front pages of the press
25/08/2016
Las manifestaciones del movimiento magisterial en exigencia de una mesa de diálogo con la Secretaria de gobernación (Segob) se han enmarcado en un contexto de escalada de violencia represiva.
25/08/2016
En los últimos meses, las protestas contra la reforma educativa han adquirido fuerza en muchas partes del país, sobre todo en los estados de Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero y Michoacán.
25/08/2016
Miles de mujeres juntas en las calles, ropa violeta, mantas y consignas por doquier. Mítines, actuaciones musicales, performances y talleres.
25/08/2016
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AND ACCOMPANIMENT Chiapas Northern Region In April, we were present at the ejido of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, municipality of Salto de Agua, where an […]
02/06/2016
SIPAZ Activities (Beginning of January to end of March 2016)
02/06/2016
Following news of the arrest of Rosendo Radilla in 1974, his family began to search for him immediately. His wife and daughters combed government offices, prisons and hospitals. When they did not find him, they made public complaints, organized marches, meetings and protests as methods of pressure to demand the appearance of Rosendo.
02/06/2016
The news about the forced disappearance of the 43 students from the Isidro Burgos Teacher Training School in Ayotzinapa that happened in Iguala, Gerrero, on the night of September 26 to 27, 2014, has gone around the world. The so-called "Iguala Case" placed the theme of forced disappearance in the country in the media spotlight and today it is known that Ayotzinapa is only the most visible face of this problem. "Mexico is a huge mass grave", Javier Sicilia, member of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD in its Spanish acronym), declared in 2014, following the discovery of hidden graves across the Republic.
02/06/2016
At the beginning of 2016, two topics took up the forefront of the national media: the arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman", founder of the Sinaloa cartel, who had been on the run since July 2015, and the visit of Pope Francis to Mexico from February 12th to 17th. The re-capture of "El Chapo" was widely celebrated by the Mexican Government. Nevertheless, according to the Attorney General of the United States, although it represents an "assertion of law enforcement", Guzman was no longer an active player and the infrastructure of the Sinaloa cartel remained intact.