Paz y Derechos Humanos

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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

We mourn Pope Francis and share the world’s loss

‘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

Yonny Ronay, a student sentenced to 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit

According to the lawyers of the Human Rights Center Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba), the trial against Yonny presents a series of irregularities, such as forgery of signatures, attribution of crimes unrelated to the accused and fabrication of testimonies by the prosecutor’s office in Chiapas...

Publicado el 24 de febrero de 2022 23:19

SweFOR’s mandate in Guatemala: nonviolent work and presence – a clarification

The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) is a Swedish nonviolent organization working for peace, justice, a world without violence and a sustainable way of life. It is an ecumenical organisation established in 1919 and a member of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), wh...

Publicado el 15 de octubre de 2021 22:34

Faith-based peacebuilding? The story of my Life

“Faith is like connecting ones’ phone to the socket to recharge. Once a phone is recharged, one can use it” Moses John. Director of ONAD in South Sudan. Photo: Lisa Hydén.   Can you describe your faith and in what way it influences or shapes your everyday life? – Faith is like connecting ones...

Publicado el 26 de noviembre de 2020 15:23