Paz y Derechos Humanos

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SweFOR is looking for an Advocacy Coordinator for our international accompaniment programme in Latin America

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

Call for proposal for external evaluation of “Comprehensive protection for human rights defenders in Colombia 2022–2025″

The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) is looking for a consulting team to conduct an external and independent evaluation of its project “Comprehensive protection for human rights defenders in Colombia 2022-2025”, funded through Sweden’s Strategy for Development Cooperation with Colomb...

Publicado el 18 de diciembre de 2025 19:52

The El Obse – Observatorio de Personas Defensoras de los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas’ web page

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

Perpetrator in the murder of Father Marcelo Perez Perez convicted

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

JOINT STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REDUCTION OF CIVIC SPACE IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO, DUE TO THE DETERIORATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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

Open letter: The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention confirms the unjustly accusation and arbitrary detention of the Tzeltal human rights defenders Manuel Santiz Cruz, Agustín Pérez Domínguez, Juan Velasco Aguilar, Martín Pérez Domínguez, Augustín Pérez Velasco and Agustín Pérez Velasco

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

URGENT APPEAL – Forced entry into the home of Ms Dora Roblero, Director of CDH Frayba

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

IFOR Juba Conference: Armed Conflicts and Peaceful Transition in Africa Nov 12th

From the four corners of the world, artisans of non-violence, reconciliation and peace are meeting in the African city of Juba, South Sudan. On Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November 2022, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) -a spiritual based peace movement founded in 1914- wil...

Publicado el 12 de noviembre de 2022 11:21

Joint declaration of international CSOs expressing concern about the criminalization of Father Marcelo

                  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

We manifest our concerns about Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez

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