PBI-Entrepueblos film ‘La Sangre de la Tierra’ to be screened in Toronto and Quebec City
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Social distancing disregarded for Mexican migrants and asylum seekers
In late March, a group of 50 - 70 migrants gathered in the courtyard of the Siglo XXI Migratory Station in Tapachula, Chiapas to protest the indefinite extension of detention times, demanding the detainees be released or returned to their countries of origin. The protesters expressed their fear of contracting Covid-19 and announced their intention to start a hunger strike if they were not released. The protest was dissipated by the internal security brigade and the National Guard, who used water jets and pepper spray against the protestors.
EU-Mexico Agreement: PBI and European civil society concerned about human rights implications
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Espacio OSC, HRDs and Journalists call to respect the right to defend human rights during the COVID-19 crisis
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In the state of the health emergency caused by Covid-19, human rights defenders, journalists and CSOs urge the Mexican Government and its institutions to generate measures in order to guarantee the right to defend human rights, in accordance with national and international recommendations.
PBI-Entrepueblos film ‘La Sangre de la Tierra’ to be screened in Toronto and Quebec City
Article by PBI-Canada
La Sangre de la Tierra (The Blood of the Earth), a documentary film made by Peace Brigades International and Asociación Entrepueblos, is scheduled to be screened at the Planet in Focus film festival (October 15-20) in Toronto and at the International Symposium on Indigenous Languages (February 11, 2021) in Quebec City.
Casa del Migrante de Saltillo 2020 Advocacy Tour
In March 2020, Peace Brigades International – USA had the pleasure of joining Casa del Migrante de Saltillo on our Speaking Tour accompanied by PBI-Mexico Project Advocacy Coordinator, Lena Weber, and PBI's Advocacy Director in DC, Pat Davis.
"Disappearances aren’t stopping, and in the face of the new challenges implicated by the pandemic, for families, the need to continue searching does not stop." Movement for our Disappeared in Mexico
Article by PBI-Mexico
Pandemic delays ratification of Escazú Agreement protection for human rights defenders
Peace Brigades International has endorsed the Escazú Agreement. PBI-Mexico has also called on the European Union to encourage Mexican authorities to “Take all necessary steps to ratify the Escazú Agreement through the competent national bodies.”
Armed group in Guerrero threatens Mexican journalist Ezequiel Flores and human rights defender Manuel Olivares
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On April 13, the United Front of Community Police of Guerrero State threatened human rights activist Manuel Olivares Hernández and journalist Ezequiel Flores Contreras via a media release the armed group posted on Facebook.
The Associated Press reports, “An armed vigilante group in southern Mexico has threatened a well-known human rights activist and a journalist, saying the two would be abducted and subjected to ‘re-education’.”
PBI-Mexico provides remote accompaniment and monitoring during COVID-19 pandemic
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On April 13, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project published and began circulating its April 2020 e-newsletter.
In it PBI-Mexico notes, “Like most of the organizations that we accompany in the country, we took strict confinement protection measures prior to the Mexican government decree of phase 2 of the pandemic and the declaration of a national health emergency.”
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