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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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Oaxaca’s Wind Parks May Violate OECD Rules English

Oaxaca’s Wind Parks May Violate OECD Rules

Four wind farm projects in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, operated or financed by European investors, could violate Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) rules, say activists. Three of the parks are being developed by Electricité de France (EDF) and the fourth is financed by public funds from Denmark and the Netherlands. Benjamin Cokelet, founder and executive director…
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2 septiembre, 2014
Another Plan Colombia is no solution for Central America migration crisis English

Another Plan Colombia is no solution for Central America migration crisis

While the least-productive Congress in history went on vacation in August without addressing the Central American child refugee crisis, others opined about possible solutions. In an August 5 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, suggested policymakers look further south to Colombia and use the $8 billion Plan Colombia aid package as…
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30 agosto, 2014
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Father Solalinde declares migrant flows will not cease amidst imposition of new federal measures English

Father Solalinde declares migrant flows will not cease amidst imposition of new federal measures

If the number of undocumented migrants who have boarded the “Beast” (this being the train that travels from Arriaga, Chiapas, to Ixtepec, Oaxaca) seems to have diminished since the declarations made by the federal Secretary of Governance, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, that migrants would not be allowed to travel this way, Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, priest and recognized rights-defender for migrants, assured…
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12 agosto, 2014
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Mexico Energy Reform Creates New Rural Latifundistas English

Mexico Energy Reform Creates New Rural Latifundistas

A new social class is about to appear in the Mexican countryside. It is the class of the energy latifundios. The new legislation not only allows for the plunder of the land and territories of ejido  members, communal land owners and small landowners, but also concentrates a large part of the land once again into a few hands: those of the large hydrocarbon…
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11 agosto, 2014
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Electoral Reform Threatens the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples English

Electoral Reform Threatens the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples

At the end of May, Mexico’s National Congress approved a political-electoral reform that will organize federal and local elections for the year 2015. Such a reform represents a step backward for indigenous towns in Mexico because it does not consider the way in which they elect authorities through their own system of "uses and customs" legitimate. Despite efforts by citizens, academics, organizations…
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4 agosto, 2014
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Short Film: The Mother of our Waters English

Short Film: The Mother of our Waters

On June 5th, in the village of Paso de la Reina, municipality of Santiago Jamiltepec, a mass against the Federal Electricity Commission’s (CFE) construction of a hydroelectric dam in the riverbed of the Rio Verde (Green River) was celebrated. 33 communities in the region participated at the event while the Bishop of the diocese of Puerto Escondido, made a clear…
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28 julio, 2014