May 10th marks Mother’s Day in Mexico. It is a date on which, year after year, thousands of mothers take to the streets to demand to know the whereabouts of their of their missing children in a country which has over a 100,000 disappeared people. This article from today’s Guardian examines this human tragedy.
Mother’s Day brings only grief for those seeking Mexico’s disappeared READ MORE »
The ongoing tragedy of disappearances in Mexico continues and does so in impunity. It is an omnipresent problem which also affects the state of Chiapas, where almost half of the disappeared are children or adolescents. From 2021 to 2022, 1,171 girls, boys and adolescents were reported disappeared in the state. Girls and adolescent women represent the most affected group and often end up in sexual slavery. It is a phenomenon that especially affects indigenous populations and is largely underreported or not reported at all.
Chiapas Remains in Fourth Place For Disappearances of Children and Adolescents READ MORE »
On Valentine’s day we celebrate the global movement to end violence against ALL women and girls (gender fluid, trans, and cisgender) and to end the patriarchal violence that afflicts us all.
Raúl Romero writes of this movement, an anti-monument of protest, and a demand for justice, Noise.
Please sign this urgent action from Frayba for the presentation alive of Antonio Díaz Valencia, leader of the indigenous community of Aquila, and of lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca (the lawyer Ricardo). Frayba is one of the organizations that Ricardo has worked with in Chiapas, an organization that Schools for Chiapas collaborates with in the recruitment of civil observers.
Eight years have passed since the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa. There has been neither truth nor justice for the parents of the 43 in that time. In the following article, La Montaña Tlachinollan Human Rights Center gives its analysis of the latest report from the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) and the current status of the investigation.
Original version at https://www.tlachinollan.org/el-giei-y-la-lucha-por-la-verdad/. Translated by Schools for Chiapas.
The IGIE and the Struggle for the Truth READ MORE »
