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Would you like to work with protection human rights defenders in Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico? Do you have experience in advocacy with national authorities and international human rights promotion and protection organisations, networking, and knowledge of the situation of human rights defender...
Publicado el 18 de diciembre de 2025 20:04
We would like to share with you the platform El Obse – Observatorio de Personas Defensoras de los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas, where you can also read the attached report on the situation for human rights defenders in the state. The Obse is a platform, a registry of attacks against human rights ...
Publicado el 15 de diciembre de 2025 21:13
On 6 August, a judge in the Federal Criminal Justice Court in the Mexican state of Chiapas handed out a 20-year prison sentence against Edgar “M” for the aggravated homicide of human rights defender Marcelo Pérez Pérez. The investigations were carried out by the Office of the Attorney General of...
Publicado el 18 de septiembre de 2025 16:52
We, the undersigned organisations, express our deep concern for the shrinking civic space in Chiapas, Mexico, due to the deteriorating conditions for the defence of human rights. We urgently call on the Mexican State to fulfil its obligation to protect and publicly support human rights defenders...
Publicado el 22 de agosto de 2025 15:36
Dear Sirs and Madams, We are writing to express our concern for the five unjustly detained Tzeltal human rights defenders Manuel Santiz Cruz, Agustín Pérez Domínguez, Juan Velasco Aguilar, Martín Pérez Domínguez and Agustín Pérez Velasco, who were arbitrarily detained in 2022 and who have since b...
Publicado el 21 de agosto de 2025 16:57
The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) would like to express our profound concern and condemnation of the forced entry into the home of Dora Roblero, director of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Centre (CDH Frayba), which took place on the 22nd of July 2025 in San Cristóbal...
Publicado el 21 de agosto de 2025 16:01
‘We share the loss of our friends, the Church and the world’ write Herman Hallonsten, Chairperson of the Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Lotta Sjöström Becker, Secretary General of the Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation, on the death of Pope Francis. Photo. Günther Simmermacher / Pix...
Publicado el 24 de abril de 2025 21:13
Criminalisation against Father Marcelo Perez Perez, Parish Priest of the Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas The undersigned organisations express their deep concern at the attempted criminalisation of Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez, parish priest of the Diocese of San Cr...
Publicado el 20 de julio de 2022 22:20
26 CSO:s condemn the criminalization of the human rights defender Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez, Parish Priest of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Read the full pronouncement We manifest our concerns about the risks of detainment, disappearance, or assassination. Hereby,...
Publicado el 8 de julio de 2022 16:21
“They don´t consider our rights as indigenous people, they don´t ask if we want the National Guard. The municipal, state and federal governments made the decision to place the National Guard in our municipality.” Member of the Community Government of Chilón The municipality of Chilón in the st...
Publicado el 10 de junio de 2022 20:17