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SIPAZ REPORTS
Articles published in the SIPAZ Quarterly Reports
11/01/2018
On September 7th, shortly before midnight, there was an earthquake with an 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale and with an epicenter in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, 143 kilometers southwest of Pijijiapan, Chiapas. The biggest damages were reported on the Chiapas coast and the Oaxaca area. On September 19th, there was another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 degrees that severely affected the center of the country (Morelos, Puebla, the State of Mexico and Mexico City).
26/09/2017
On August 8th and 9th, in the framework of the 23rd anniversary of the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center, the Forum on forced disappearance "Against Pain and Fear: a Cry of Hope" took place in Chilpancingo.
26/09/2017
To date, 80 municipalities in 11 states in Mexico have established a Gender-Based Violence Alert (GVA) with the aim of promoting greater security for women and reducing the number of femicides that currently reach an average of seven women murdered per day throughout the country.
26/09/2017
From May 26th to 28th, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI in its Spanish acronym) was held to form the Indigenous Council of Government (CIG in its Spanish acronym) and to appoint its spokesperson who will be independent candidate for the presidency in 2018. 858 representatives of 58 indigenous peoples participated, guests, observers, as well as the general command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN in its Spanish acronym).
27/06/2017
SIPAZ ACTIVITIES (Start of April, 2016, to mid-May, 2017)
27/06/2017
From April 12th to 15th, the Critical Reflection Seminar "The Walls of Capital, the Cracks of the Left" convened by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) was held at Cideci-Unitierra in San Cristobal de Las Casas. Zapatista speakers, national and international intellectuals, and delegates of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI in its Spanish acronym) participated.
27/06/2017
December 2016 marked the tenth anniversary of the so-called "war on drugs" in Mexico, during which time thousands of Army, Air Force and Navy soldiers have been deployed on the streets to fight not only drug trafficking, but also organized crime in all its aspects: arms trafficking, money laundering, extortion, trafficking of people (including migrants), kidnapping, theft, etc.
27/06/2017
In the first months after Donald Trump took office as President of the United States, counterweights have been noted in the American political system that prevent him in the short term from making all his campaign promises public policy. Many of them would have an impact on Mexico first.
14/04/2017
ACTIVIDADES DE SIPAZ (De principios de noviembre de 2016 a finales de enero de 2017)
14/04/2017
In November, SIPAZ had the opportunity to participate in the International Human Rights Observation Mission on the Guatemala-Mexico Border (MODH in its Spanish acronym), convened by the Cross-Border Migration and Gender Coordination Board (MTMG in its Spanish acronym) to raise awareness of human rights violations in this region.
14/04/2017
On January 1, 2017, from the Caracol of Oventik, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) publicly confirmed its decision to "to name an Indigenous Governing Council with men and women representatives from each one of the peoples, tribes, and nations that make up the CNI. (...) This council intends to govern this country. (...) This council will be presided over by an indigenous woman of the CNI, (...) which is to say, a woman of indigenous blood who knows her culture. This indigenous woman spokesperson from the CNI will be an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the 2018 elections."
14/04/2017
The night of November 8, 2016 shocked the whole world when, in spite of the forecasts and rejection by broad sectors both inside and outside the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.
09/01/2017
ACTIVIDADES DE SIPAZ (De principios de julio a finales de octubre de 2016)
09/01/2017
In October, SIPAZ had the privilege of traveling to the northern border (Mexico / United States) to participate in a binational Convergence and a tour where we had the opportunity to give presentations about the current socio-political context in southern Mexico, and had meetings with social actors, collectives, networks and human rights organizations in the states of Arizona, Michigan, Chicago, the District of Colombia, and Texas.
09/01/2017
From August 29th to September 7th, two representatives of the United Nations (UN) Working Group (WG) on Business and Human Rights, Pavel Sulyandziga (Russia) and Dante Pesce (Chile), made an official visit to Mexico that included the states of Mexico, Jalisco, Oaxaca, and Sonora.
09/01/2017
From July to September, the teachers' movement, opposed to the 2013 education reform bill, filled the front pages of the press