The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature, which is an ethical court, delivered its verdict on the Mayan Train on Wednesday morning at the offices of the Presidency of Mexico. The sentence is signed by 23 honorary judges from various countries of the world.
In a final meeting in Chilpancingo with family members of the 43 students, Doña Blanca told Ángela Buitrago and Carlos Beristáin of the GIEI, “Tell everything that you know, don’t hold anything back.”
In the final report of the IAHCR investigation on Ayotzinapa, the investigators tried to do just that, citing obfuscation by authorities in impeding further investigation.
Mexico: IACHR Experts Deliver Final Report on Ayotzinapa READ MORE »
When the war began, a timely communiqué from the EZLN analyzing the first days of the conflict concluded: “The war must stop now. If it continues and, as expected, escalates, then there may be no one to account for the landscape after the battle.”
The End of the Landscape (during the battle) READ MORE »
Dehumanizing the other is a prior step to the violation of their human rights. The transformation of the immigrant experience into an abstract statistic, into a criminal act, into an excuse to manipulate or settle extraneous and extemporaneous political conflicts, are forms of this erasure of the human that entails violence. This is the current case of the migrant population, which has become a wild card in political struggles within the territory of the United States.
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While abandoned trailers were carrying about 100 passengers in the past, with the worsening crisis it would appear that the traffickers have now doubled the numbers, packing in over 200 migrants in inhuman conditions.
As part of our ongoing collaboration with Frayba, Schools for Chiapas is currently recruiting voluntary workers to work at a migrant center here in Chiapas. If you are interested in showing your solidarity, please visit our webpage at https://schoolsforchiapas.org/become-a-human-rights-observer/
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