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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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A Oaxaca landmark worth fighting over English

A Oaxaca landmark worth fighting over

Activists led by artist Francisco Toledo temporarily interrupted construction of a massive convention center project within the Cerro del Fortín nature reserve in Oaxaca City. The Oaxaca state government was forced to halt construction on a parking garage in the Cerro del Fortín, a protected nature reserve, after activists won a second injunction from a judge on Wednesday, June 10. The parking…
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12 junio, 2015
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Urgent Appeal: The militarization of the electoral process shows a return to authoritariarism in Mexico English

Urgent Appeal: The militarization of the electoral process shows a return to authoritariarism in Mexico

56 NGOs Appeal to the International Community from Oaxaca Spanish: Llamado urgente: Militarización del proceso electoral evidencia regresión autoritaria en México Mexico is facing an unprecedented political crisis. The violence that has taken place during the current electoral process—21 political assassinations during the campaign season—far surpasses that of previous national elections and it is the outcome of impunity, corruption, violence,…
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7 junio, 2015
Unrest sweeps across Mexico prior to Sunday’s Midterm Elections English

Unrest sweeps across Mexico prior to Sunday’s Midterm Elections

On June 7, midterm elections will be held in Mexico with voting to determine all 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, as well as nine governorships, 17 state legislatures and roughly 300 mayors. In the weeks and months prior to the elections however, the legitimacy of the electoral system have been challenged by voices across the political spectrum, including…
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5 junio, 2015
Mexican Political Prisoner Salgado García on Hunger Strike after nearly Two Years of Unjust Detention English

Mexican Political Prisoner Salgado García on Hunger Strike after nearly Two Years of Unjust Detention

Nestora Salgado García, a Mexican-American woman and former coordinator of a community police force in the indigenous community of Olinalá, Guerrero, has been locked up in a federal maximum security prison in Tepic, Nayarit since August 2013 after being falsely accused of kidnapping and involvement in organized crime. The pretext for these accusations was that she arrested teenagers for drug…
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27 mayo, 2015
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Oaxaca-Baja California: ‘Disposable’ Farmworkers in San Quintín Valley Rise Up English

Oaxaca-Baja California: ‘Disposable’ Farmworkers in San Quintín Valley Rise Up

The protests in San Quentín began on March 17 at three in the morning. In the boroughs that make up the valley, thousands of farm workers, led by their community leaders, headed out on the highway that crosses the Baja California Peninsula amid cries of "In struggle for the dignity of day laborers!" and "The people united will never be defeated!" San Quentín's…
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25 marzo, 2015
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The Capacity for Indignation: Women Human Rights Defenders of Oaxaca English

The Capacity for Indignation: Women Human Rights Defenders of Oaxaca

“When I see that a child can go to school, well fed and with a smile on its face...when I see a river flowing freely, plentiful cornfields, forests thriving...when I see an indigenous assembly and the multicoloured traditional clothing...when I hear the different languages of the mountain communities...when I see the problems that oppose the common interest...when people are heard…
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17 marzo, 2015
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Mexico PRD Candidate Killed in Oaxaca English

Mexico PRD Candidate Killed in Oaxaca

Three members of a major political party were found dead in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, according to reports on Wednesday. Authorities say they have recovered the bodies of federal legislature candidate Carlos Martínez Villavicencio from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, a center-left Mexican political party), a companion Fidel Lopez, and their driver Bernardo Bautista. All three…
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19 febrero, 2015