21/10/2024

Chiapas: SIPAZ regrets the murder of Father Marcelo Pérez

The International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) regrets the murder of Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez that occurred on October 20 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. According to preliminary reports, he was shot four times by unknown persons on a motorcycle while he was heading to the Guadalupe temple, after celebrating mass in the Cuxtitali neighborhood in this same city.
27/04/2021

National and International Observation for Journey for Life, Europe Chapter

The Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights C.A. and the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) reports on the physical accompaniment as human rights observers that is provided to the convoy of the maritime delegation as part of the Journey for Life, Europe Chapter.
07/12/2018

Fund Appeal Letter

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico November 20, 2018 Dear Friends of SIPAZ, Greetings from San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico. Thank you for your […]
21/12/2017

URGENT BULLETIN – Reactivation of the agrarian conflict between Chenalhó and Chalchihuitán: generalized violence and impunity

Since the end of October, in the area of the Highlands of Chiapas, the conflict over the territorial limits between the municipalities of Chalchihuitán and Chenalhó, without solution for 45 years, has been reactivated with unprecedented violence.
22/06/2016

URGENT RELEASE: REPRESSION OF TEACHERS IN OAXACA

On June 19, elements of the police in the state of Oaxaca violently repressed teachers and organized civil society in opposition of the education reform of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto. Such events caused the death of at least six people, the apprehension and/or disappearance of 22, and 45 left with gunshot wounds between Nochixtlán and Hacienda Blanca.