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Organizaciones, personas defensoras de derechos humanos y periodistas alertan sobre clima hostil contra la prensa en Chiapas

Ciudad de México, a 20 de junio de 2023.- Las organizaciones, redes de periodistas, medios, personas defensoras de derechos humanos y periodistas abajo firmantes expresamos nuestra preocupación por el clima hostil contra la prensa en el estado de  Chiapas derivado del clima de violencia que se vi...

Publicado el 20 de junio de 2023 20:34

Organizaciones de derechos humanos solicitan reunión urgente con el Gobernador de Puebla para abordar la situación de violencia en contra de periodistas y personas defensoras en el estado

SERGIO SALOMÓN CÉSPEDES PEREGRINA GOBERNADOR DE PUEBLA PRESENTE Ref: Solicitud de reunión Puebla, Pue., a 7 de junio de 2023 Reciba un cordial saludo por parte de las organizaciones de derechos humanos firmantes. Le escribimos esta carta abierta para reafirmar nuestra disposición d...

Publicado el 7 de junio de 2023 16:57

82 civil society organizations request that the future directive on due diligence have a gender focus

Last November, more than 60 civil society organizations signed an Open Letter addressed to the European Commission asking that the future draft on due diligence have a gender focus. However, the proposal that was forwarded to Parliament and the Council lacks specific tools in this regard. The Eur...

Publicado el 31 de marzo de 2022 10:59

Open Letter to the European Union

Brussels, November 29, 2021   Subject: Urgent request to ensure a gender-responsive and effective legislation on human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) and corporate accountability   Dear President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Dear Vice-President Vera Jourová, De...

Publicado el 29 de noviembre de 2021 13:20

Open letter to Ursula von der Leyen: Prioritise cooperation, human rights and solidarity

The EU-LAT Network, together with other 6 EU-level organisations, representing over 2600 CSOs across Europe and beyond, call on the new European Commission to respect its commitments and base its external action on respect for human dignity, human rights, equality and solidarity. In the 2023 Stat...

Publicado el 18 de julio de 2024 10:08

EU-LAC Civil Society Forum 2023

On the 13th and 14th of July 2023, the EU-LAT Network was invited to participate at the EU-CELAC Civil Society, Youth and Local Authorities Forum – ahead of the EU-CELAC Summit.  For the first time in eight years, civil society organisations from Latin America and the European Union gathered toge...

Publicado el 20 de julio de 2023 16:16

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

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

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

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