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SIPAZ REPORTS
Articles published in the SIPAZ Quarterly Reports
19/12/2019
September marked three months since the governments of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and Donald Trump reached an agreement in which Mexico undertook measures to lower the level of migration that crosses its territory to reach the United States.
27/09/2019
27/09/2019
The night of September 7, 2017 represents a traumatic moment in the lives of tens of thousands of people, when a magnitude 8.2 earthquake shook the coastal areas of Chiapas and Oaxaca, leaving 102 people dead, thousands homeless, and the region in chaos.
27/09/2019
Currently, 30 to 35% of Mexican territory is covered with forests and jungles. Despite having great natural wealth, Mexico suffers from one of the highest deforestation rates on the planet.
27/09/2019
In June, US President Donald Trump threatened to apply a 5% tax on Mexican products if Mexico did not stop irregular immigration.
22/06/2019
SIPAZ activities (From mid-February to mid-May 2019)
22/06/2019
March 22nd, 2019, not only marks the beginning of a new discussion on gender violence in Mexico, but also a new way of addressing this discussion.
22/06/2019
On May 17th, the United Nations Organization Committee against Torture (CAT) gave its verdict after the evaluation of the matter to which Mexico submitted itself in the month of April.
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.
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.