Photo: In January 2020, Indigenous Otomi peoples in the town of San Pablito called for the TC Energy Tuxpan-Tula pipeline to be cancelled because it would cross the sacred hills of the Pahuatlán region in the state of Puebla. Calgary-based TC Energy is both the largest foreign investor in Mexico Read more…
Photo: Luis Urbano Domínguez Mendoza, an Indigenous Yaqui water defender, was shot and killed in June 2021. He is one of 25 defenders identified by the Cerezo Committee in their report released this week. On January 4, the Cerezo Committee released its annual report on the extrajudicial killings of human Read more…
Photo of Rebeca Girón at the La Siguata healing centre in Honduras by Jeff Ernst from his article in The Guardian on La Siguata and La Serena in Mexico. La Siguata is a healing centre in Tegucigalpa, Honduras for women human rights defenders who are suffering from the trauma of Read more…
On December 30, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project tweeted: “Today we saw the facilities of Radio #Zacatepec in #Puebla. On several occasions, members of this community radio station have faced attacks, arrests or defamations for their work to disseminate and defend the #human rights of individuals and collectives.” PBI-Mexico adds: Read more…
Photo: Earlier this month, Itzam Pineda from the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) presented the report to members of the Regional Council of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of the Territories of Puebla-Hidalgo. Calgary-based TC Energy has been implicated in the violation of Indigenous rights in Canada (notably with its Read more…
On December 18, International Migrants Day, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “In Mexico and the world, ensuring the dignity and #HumanRIghts of people means stopping the criminalization, persecution and attacks against those who migrate and against the defenders of human rights who accompany them.” PBI is also part of the Cantabrian Coordinator of Read more…
On December 16, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “11 years after the murder of #MaricelaEscobedo, women and organizations gather around the #CruzDeClavos in #Chihuahua to ‘honor the struggle of Marisela and that of all the mothers who seek justice in this country’.” The Centre for Women’s Human Rights (CEDEHM) further notes: “Marisela was Read more…
On December 16, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “Yesterday, we participated in the International Observation Mission of #DDHH [human rights] at #Zacatepec, #Puebla. In this regard, we express our concern about the risk to the physical and emotional integrity of the communities that defend land and water.” “In #Puebla, we are particularly concerned Read more…
On December 16, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “Yesterday, we participated in the International Observation Mission of #DDHH [human rights] at #Zacatepec, #Puebla. In this regard, we express our concern about the risk to the physical and emotional integrity of the communities that defend land and water.” “In #Puebla, we are particularly concerned Read more…
Two regional assemblies representing ten Zapotec communities have now rejected the San Jose silver and gold mine owned and operated by Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines through its Mexican subsidiary Cuzcatlán. Educa Oaxaca reports: “During the Regional Assemblies of December 10 and 12 held in the Zapotec communities of Santa Catarina Read more…