30/06/2024
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Activities for our missing people within the framework of Mother's Day, San Cristóbal de las Casas, May 2024 © SIPAZ
30/06/2024
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FOCUS: I name you, Mexico, a country of disappeared people

For some years now, various human rights organizations and groups of searching families have been documenting and denouncing the crisis of disappearances in Mexico. In 2023, people spoke with surprise about the alarming figure that had been reached: 100 thousand missing people; today there are more than 116 thousand.
30/06/2024
15/12/2020
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Work day by day to survive © SIPAZ
15/12/2020
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LATEST: COVID-19 – Health, economic and social Impacts increase

In August, Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Depart-ment, pointed out that the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic could be underestimated in Mexico due to the low number of tests carried out.
15/12/2020
19/12/2019
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Chiapas, Southern Border © SIPAZ
19/12/2019
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LATEST: Mexico “happy, happy, happy”?

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.
19/12/2019
13/03/2019
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13/03/2019
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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.
13/03/2019
14/07/2018
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Train in which migrants travel, Ixtepec, Oaxaca © Albergue de Migrantes de Ixtepec
14/07/2018
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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.
14/07/2018