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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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National Day of Maize in Mexico: Protecting the Sacred Plant English

National Day of Maize in Mexico: Protecting the Sacred Plant

Mexicans celebrated National Day of Maize on September 29, 2014, with demonstrations, marches, and expositions. Known as the Land of Maize, Mexico now imports one-third of this sacred icon and staple food, mostly from the US. A fierce battle is being waged over corn that is still grown in Mexico, with small farmers and seed sovereignty activists pitted against Monsanto…
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3 octubre, 2014
URGENT ACTION: Students attacked in Guerrero; 43 remain missing English

URGENT ACTION: Students attacked in Guerrero; 43 remain missing

URGENT ACTION GRAVE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS COMMITTED AGAINST STUDENTS FROM THE RAUL ISIDRO BURGOS RURAL SCHOOL ON 26 SEPTEMBER 2014 IN IGUALA, GUERRERO   On 26 September, 2014, six people (three of whom were students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural School) were killed and at least 20 more were injured in four related violent events near the city of…
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1 octubre, 2014
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Researcher Raises Alert About Environmental Dangers of Wind Farms English

Researcher Raises Alert About Environmental Dangers of Wind Farms

The Tehuantepec Isthmus, a southern region of Mexico that includes the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco and Veracruz, holds the highest concentration of wind farms in Latin America. The Isthmus, measuring a mere 200 kilometers between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, is the third narrowest strip of land on the continent, following Nicaragua and the Panama Canal. A…
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30 septiembre, 2014
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Human Rights Activist and Oaxacan Indigenous Leader Killed English

Human Rights Activist and Oaxacan Indigenous Leader Killed

It was the 10th murder of a member of the Zapotec community in Oaxaca since 2013. The Oaxacan human rights advocate Jaime Lopez Hernandez, was killed by members of organized crime, according to the Indigenous Organization for Human Rights in Oaxaca (OIDHO, for its acronym in Spanish). Lopez, who was recently named secretary of the OIHDO’s board of directors, was shot in the back…
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25 septiembre, 2014
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Story of Indigenous Leader Mario Luna Romero and the Yaqui’s Fight for Water English

Story of Indigenous Leader Mario Luna Romero and the Yaqui’s Fight for Water

It is one scandal atop another that about 16 months after the arrest warrant was issued against him Mario Luna Romer, the secretary of the Yaqui tribe, was arrested. Plainclothes policemen aboard four unmarked vehicles, seized him on September 11. The arrest and imprisonment of the indigenous leader--who, according to the state attorney, PAN member Carlos Alberto Navarro, is a…
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23 septiembre, 2014
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Consorcio Oaxaca completes 10 years working for a free life for women English

Consorcio Oaxaca completes 10 years working for a free life for women

To observe its tenth anniversary of work, Consorcio for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity Oaxaca (Consorcio Oaxaca) has published the book Lines toward New Geographies: Ten Years of Feminist Construction.  Since Consorcio Oaxaca emerged in 2003, with the goal of promoting respect for, and exercise of, the human rights of women and gender equality, it has been struggling against the criminalization of…
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17 septiembre, 2014
Yaqui Tribe Spokesperson Detained in Mexican State of Sonora English

Yaqui Tribe Spokesperson Detained in Mexican State of Sonora

Mario Luna opposes the construction of an aquifer through the Yaqui riverbasin. On Thursday morning, Yaqui tribal spokesman Mario Luna was whisked away in the City of Obreón in the Mexican state of Sonora by civilian-clothed officers who arrived in four unmarked cars. The officers were carrying out an apprehension order that was issued against Luna on June 14, 2013…
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12 septiembre, 2014