The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has posted on social media:
“December 15, 2025
Yesterday, PBI Mexico, together with the German Embassy in Mexico City, organized the panel ‘The role of the international community in the defense of human rights,’ a space for dialogue and collective reflection on the current challenges for the defense of human rights.
We are grateful for the valuable contributions of Yuteita Valeria Hoyos Ramos, human rights defender from the National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers; Jennifer Feller, from the General Directorate of Human Rights of the SRE [Department of Foreign Affairs]; Maia Campbell, Deputy Representative of the UN Human Rights Office in Mexico; and Gunnar Schneider, head of the economic department of the German Embassy, as well as to all those who participated in this exchange.”
This past January, Yuteita Valeria Hoyos Ramos, an indigenous Mixtec woman from Mexico and General Coordinator of the National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers (RAI MX), told the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR):
“Mexico is a multicultural country, immensely rich in biodiversity and with a great sense of cooperation in its indigenous communities, but we are still immersed in a racist and colonial structure that is expressed in the exclusion of indigenous people from decision-making spaces and public opinion. The context in which we live continues to be a continuation of the colonialist project, as the State continues to dispossess us not only of our lands and identity, but also promotes the extractivism of our cultures, spiritual rituals, narratives, among others.”
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