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SIPAZ REPORTS

Articles published in the SIPAZ Quarterly Reports

11/12/2018

LATEST: “Migrant Exodus” poses new and old challenges alike for human rights in Mexico

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
22/09/2018

LATEST: Mexico – Overwhelming Victory of “Together We Will Make History” Coalition in the Elections of July 1st

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

FOCUS: The tragedy of forced internal displacement in Mexico – one of the pending issues for the new government

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

ARTICLE: Sowing positions for self-determination – the peoples of Chiapas in their struggle for autonomy, the experiences of Chilon and Sitala

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.
14/07/2018

ARTICLE: “This little light is for you (…) Take it and put it together with other lights” – International Meeting of Women in Struggle

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

FOCUS: Migration policy in Mexico and the United States – different discourses, similar strategies

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.
02/04/2018

ARTICLE: Jtatic Samuel Jcanan Lum Recognition Award – “we will be the ones below … those who will build a better tomorrow”

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

IN FOCUS: Indigenous Peoples – “Great challenges and obstacles for the effective enjoyment of their rights”

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

UPDATE: Mexico – Legislative agenda: one step forward, several steps back

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

ARTICLE: Earthquakes – The Admirable Mobilization of Civil Society

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.