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

Pastoral Indígena in Chocó – accompanying indigenous communities

In Colombia, indigenous groups are often defenders of their territories despite multiple threats and risks. Armed conflict, dispossession of land and the expansion of economic interests have put at risk not only their continued life and presence in their territories, but also their cultural and ...

Publicado el 8 de octubre de 2025 15:18

Interview: The Wajtakju Namto Ponötsi walk– the importance of a cultural practice

The Wajtakju Namto Ponötsi ancestral walk is a practice that the Maiben Masiware community carry out. They are a nomadic indigenous community living in the Caño Mochuelo reservation, located between the municipalities of Paz de Ariporo and Hato Corozal, in the region of Casanare. The millennial ...

Publicado el 8 de octubre de 2025 15:12

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

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

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

Joint statement for the recent disinformation, defamation and criminalization campaign against the International Accompaniment Project in Guatemala (ACOGUATE)

November 3, 2021 Joint statement The Network of International Accompaniment Organizations in Latin America and allied organizations express concern about the recent disinformation, defamation and criminalization against the International Accompaniment Project in Guatemala (ACOGUATE).   The Peace...

Publicado el 22 de noviembre de 2021 16:47

Joint Statement – Concern for Father Marcelo’s safety Parish priest at the municipality of Simojovel and human rights defender

Joint Statement Concern for the safety of Father Marcelo, Parish priest at the municipality of Simojovel and human rights defender, Chiapas, Mexico Father Marcelo is an acknowledged human rights defender that, in his role as parish at the municipality of Simojovel and Social Work Coordinator at ...

Publicado el 5 de agosto de 2021 18:46