Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 10 February 2014. Today the National Network of Human Rights Organizations “All Rights For Everyone” (Red TDT) presented the book Acompañando la Esperanza (Accompanying Hope) in the state of Guerrero.
The objective of this Alert is to bring attention to and share our concerns regarding the current situation of threats and violence in Monte Olivo, Cobán (Alta Verapaz). This situation has developed within the context of the construction of a hydroelectric plant on the Icbolay river (a tributary to the Chixoy river) near the junction of the rivers Dolores and Canguinic.
Mexico D.F., 5 February 2014.
Mexico D.F., 31 January 2014. Today PBI observed a roundtable between human rights defenders and governmental authorities in Oaxaca. Gabino Cué Monteagudo, Governor of Oaxaca, presided over the meeting and heard directly from defenders their concerns, demands and proposals. This was the second roundtable between the Government and civil society to discuss the risk situation of human rights defenders. The first one took place in November 2013 at PBI's initiative.
Mexico D.F., 29 January 2014.
On 10 December, international Human Rights Day, twenty-two international organizations and networks deplored the conviction and imprisonment of David Crespo and urged the Colombia government to take appropriate measures to guarantee the fundamental rights of David Ravelo and to address the irregularities that have been denounced since his imprisonment so that the trial is compliant with Colombian law and international standards of due process.
Mexico D.F., 9 January 2014.
Mexico D.F. 9 December 2013. Several civil society organizations urge the Mexican government to protect human rights defenders and journalists. They highlight the context of repeated attacks and acts of aggression against defenders and journalists and remind the commitments made by the Interior Ministry on the matter.
See below the press release issued by the organizations (in Spanish):
The actress Zoë Wanamaker brilliantly pitched PBI UK's new environmental and land rights defenders project.