Eight years after the disappearance of 43 student teachers in Guerrero, relatives and friends still seek justice. The main perpetrators remain in impunity in a case that the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center describes as a “shipwreck” in its 28th report.
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center Presents 28th Report on Ayotzinapa Case READ MORE »
It is time for us to listen to each other and to point directly to those who are behind the causes of the dispossession that we experience in our territories, to that 1% of the world population whose decisions and ways of life have caused the current climate crisis that forces us to be displaced as peoples, that reconfigures our territories and confronts us with exploitation, extractivism, and war.
We are the 99% who resist the onslaught of those who would destroy us and seek to dominate us.
There’s a consensus on the desirability of democracy and the rejection of dictatorship. But this consensus obscures opposing ideas about what we understand by democracy and where we place the emphasis: from those who prioritize the electoral system and suffrage, to those who understand democracy as a genuine egalitarian distribution of power (Immanuel Wallerstein).
The Decomposition of Democracy READ MORE »
Jessica Xantomila Raúl Romero, sociologist and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), denounced that he has become the victim of a campaign on Twitter, in which he has even received death threats, for visiblizing and denouncing the activism of neo-fascist groups in the country. These acts are in addition to the physical aggression suffered last Friday by cultural promoter Víctor García Zapata by a recognized member of these movements. In an interview, Romero, a contributor to La Jornada, explained that due to the threats against him, he filed a complaint with the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights
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February 22nd saw the launch of the Women and Autonomy campaign by Frayba at Taniperla Restaurant in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The event was attended by women HR defenders from Frayba, women from the frontline communities in Chiapas, Schools for Chiapas and international solidarity workers. As part of their campaign, Frayba launched a new section on their website, which we translate for you here.
In our ongoing collaboration with Frayba, Schools for Chiapas is currently recruiting civil observer volunteers to work in communities under attack or threat, where women are often the main victims in these circumstances. If you are interested in volunteering through us, you can find out more on our website at https://schoolsforchiapas.org/become-a-human-rights-observer/
WOMEN AND AUTONOMY – Hearts of Freedom and Justice READ MORE »
