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Since 1994, Educa A.C., as a civil organization, accompanies social movements, advises social organizations and indigenous communities in the defense of their social and civil rights, promotes civil and political education, advocates for the integral protection of human rights, and initiates projects of sustainable, rural development in the state of Oaxaca. As part of our strategy to promote civil and political education, we translate some of our publications into English and founded the Twitter account “Human Rights Oaxaca Mexico” to address an international audience. In the globalized world, we live in, today’s problems need to be viewed from different perspectives in order, to be solved. Therefore our work in English intends to give Oaxaca’s civil society a voice, create awareness and promote public dialogue. We cover topics such as social movements, gender and migration violence, territorial and environmental conflicts, indigenous resistance against transnational megaprojects, as well as other current issues Oaxaca’s civil society finds itself confronted with.

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Two Years After Ayotzinapa English

Two Years After Ayotzinapa

September 26 marks the second anniversary of the night student teachers were attacked by police in the city of Iguala, Guerrero. Three students and three bystanders were killed in the attacks and 43 students were disappeared. The case sparked months of angry demonstrations in Mexico that seriously damaged President Enrique Peña Nieto's image both at home and abroad. “This is…
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26 septiembre, 2016
Business and Human Rights: UN Working Group prepares for first visit to Mexico English

Business and Human Rights: UN Working Group prepares for first visit to Mexico

Has a corporation ever made you feel vulnerable? Have your rights been ignored? Does it seem that businesses have no oversight? Then this may be of interest to you.In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The principles reiterate that nations must control business activities, that corporations must respect human rights, and that victims…
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18 agosto, 2016
Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Education English

Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Education

This year’s theme for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August focuses on the right to education. The right of indigenous peoples to education is protected by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which in Article 14 states that “Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education…
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9 agosto, 2016
Oaxaca’s teachers movement not thwarted by state terror English

Oaxaca’s teachers movement not thwarted by state terror

On  June 19, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was the scene of a senseless massacre. The bloody battle took place in the rural town of Nochixtlan and resulted in the death of at least nine civilians. “Right now, the federal police are withdrawing, going back to their vehicles,”said a witness of the attack as he filmed the horrific scene. Bullets…
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30 junio, 2016
URGENT ACTION: WE DEMAND THE LIBERATION OF MEMBERS OF THE MESOAMERICAN CARAVAN English

URGENT ACTION: WE DEMAND THE LIBERATION OF MEMBERS OF THE MESOAMERICAN CARAVAN

SIGN THIS URGENT ACTION ONLINETo the international community                                             To the government of Nicaragua To the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, and Mexico On June 25, 2016, six members of the Mesoamerican Caravan were arbitrarily harassed and detained by…
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27 junio, 2016
Urgent Action: Civil Society of Oaxaca emits humanitarian alert due to armed attack of the State against civilians English

Urgent Action: Civil Society of Oaxaca emits humanitarian alert due to armed attack of the State against civilians

SIGN THIS URGENT ACTION ONLINE TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Today, June 19th, we have been witnesses of the extremely violent actions of the Mexican State repressing the teachers and the organized civil society in resistance in different areas of the State of Oaxaca including the Istmus of Tehuantepec, Nochixtlán and the city of Oaxaca.  As a result of the excessive…
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20 junio, 2016
Mexican army’s hidden body count English

Mexican army’s hidden body count

The military in most cities are there to serve and protect the citizens of it. But in Mexico the opposite seems to be true. According to the government’s own figures, the armed forces of Mexico are exceptionally efficient killers — stacking up bodies at extraordinary rates. The authorities say the nation’s soldiers are simply better trained and more skilled than…
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27 mayo, 2016