Urgent Action Needed for Displaced Children and Adolescents

The recent spate of violence in Chiapas has left at least two youths dead as well as others injured. It has also resulted in the forced displacement of families and trauma experienced by girls, boys and adolescents who are trapped in the midst of this violence. It is estimated that some 7,000 children have been displaced since 2010 to date. REDIAS, an umbrella group for seven collectives that work with minors across the state of Chiapas, has made a call for urgent action for the latest victims to receive proper attention.

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Executions, Recruitment and Forced Displacement on the Southern Border of Chiapas

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas May 28, 2023 Urgent Action No. 2 Permissiveness by the Mexican State of grave human rights violations The municipality of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, is experiencing a profound crisis due to the spiral of violence experienced in the region and which has intensified in recent days, violating the right to life and personal integrity of communities and towns, as a result of the territorial dispute between armed groups belonging to criminal groups under the auspices and observance of the municipal, state and federal governments. According to information this Human Rights Center has received, it is

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Zapatismo Returns to the Streets of Mexico City to Demand a “Stop to the War” in Chiapas

Zapatismo has once again taken to the streets. A collective cry of thousands of voices tinged the air between the Angel of Independence and the Zócalo in Mexico City this Thursday afternoon. The demonstrators demanded a “stop to the war” against the communities of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the guerrilla group that on January 1, 1994 took up arms against the structural inequality suffered by the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and all of Mexico.

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Statement from Schools for Chiapas On Stopping the War Against the Zapatista Communities

From the mountains and forests of the northwestern Turtle Island, to the Emerald Isle of Slumil K’ajemk’op, (Unsubmissive Ireland), to the coastal territories of Baja California and the borderlands, to the jungles and highlands of the Mexican southeast, we – Schools for Chiapas call for an immediate end to the state-sponsored war against the Zapatista communities. 

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Residents and Artisans from Zinacantán Respond to the DIOR Brand Appropriation of the Traditional Dress of the Municipality

Cultural appropriation is just one more manifestation of the dispossession and extractivism that indigenous people in Chiapas are constantly subjected to. Recently, the DIOR brand stole and mutilated a traditional item of clothing from Zinacantán in the Chiapas Highlands, without any prior consultation with or the consent of the local people. Here is their response to the company.

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