Ten Years After
Ten years after the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, their families continue their struggle for truth and justice and another possible world, as do the Zapatistas. We join them in that struggle.
We Denounce the Increase in Violence against Members of Frayba
The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights denounces the increase in attacks on its members and reaffirms its commitment to accompanying those who defend their human rights in Chiapas.
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UN Expresses Deep Concern over Militarization of Public Security in Mexico
Despite noting some positive developments, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights observed continuing problems, such as arbitrary detention remaining a widespread in Mexico and expressed its deep concern about the militarization of public security, the concept of preventive detention, and the abuse of force during detentions in the country.
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The Lacandon “Is a Powder Keg,” Warn Those Displaced by Organized Crime
“They denounced in the letter that they made public, that members of the Lacandon community are already part of organized crime groups, “Lacandon brothers have unfortunately allied themselves with criminals, endangering our rights as an ancestral indigenous people, placing our territories at the service of these organizations and controlling all families,” and those who oppose are threatened, and in some cases, disappeared, they said.”
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