13/03/2019
From mid-November 2018 to mid-February 2019
– LATEST: Mexico – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador becomes President with broad social support
– FOCUS: Violence against Children and Adolescents in Mexico – Reality and Responses
– 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
– SIPAZ activities (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.