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SIPAZ REPORTS

Articles published in the SIPAZ Quarterly Reports

13/03/2019

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

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

FOCUS: Violence against Children and Adolescents in Mexico – Reality and Responses

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.
11/12/2018

ARTICLE: Migrant Exodus – the Honduran crisis that forced thousands to head for the US

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

FOCUS: MEXICO – Freedom of expression under attack

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.
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. AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez 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, PolĂ­tico, ArtĂ­stico, 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.