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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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U.S. pushes for energy integration as Mexico finalizes Energy Reform legislation English

U.S. pushes for energy integration as Mexico finalizes Energy Reform legislation

A series of reforms introduced during President Enrique Peña Nieto’s first year in office represent the deepest structural changes to Mexico’s economic order since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement 20 years ago. The measures passed easily through Congress thanks to a legislative pact which includes the two largest political parties. While there’s no question about the…
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20 mayo, 2014
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Oaxaca: Relatives of Loxicha prisoner denounce psychological torture and isolation English

Oaxaca: Relatives of Loxicha prisoner denounce psychological torture and isolation

On 7 May, relatives of Loxicha prisoner Zacarías Pascual García López denounced the inhumane treatment, psychological torture, and isolation that Zacarías has suffered for 11 months in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (CEFERESO) located in Mengolí de Morelos, Miahuatlán, Oaxaca.  “We are only allowed a four-hour visit once a month; we cannot touch him because they threaten to cancel…
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19 mayo, 2014
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Bií Hioxo Wind Energy Project Hurting Indigenous Peoples and their Territories English

Bií Hioxo Wind Energy Project Hurting Indigenous Peoples and their Territories

The chickens run between the rows of crops at Don Celestino Bartolo’s ranch, a farmer who wipes the sweat from his brow after sowing what may be his last harvest of corn. Rosalino, his son, milks his cows and points with sadness toward the place where they used to fish. A huge wind turbine stands there now–one of 117 installed…
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19 mayo, 2014
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EDUCA accuses transnational corporations of collective rights violations at EIDHR Forum in Brussels English

EDUCA accuses transnational corporations of collective rights violations at EIDHR Forum in Brussels

Human rights defender at Educa Oaxaca, Marcos Leyva Madrid, attended a Human Rights forum organized by the European Commission in Brussels earlier this week. This year’s European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) 2014 ‘Protecting Those Who Protect’, whose aim is to provide support for the promotion of democracy and human rights in non-EU countries, focused on Human Rights…
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16 mayo, 2014
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México vía Berlín e. V. in solidarity with Caravana Viacrucis del Migrante, Caravana por la Libertad de Tránsito, March for Freedom and all the migrants and refugees on the planet English

México vía Berlín e. V. in solidarity with Caravana Viacrucis del Migrante, Caravana por la Libertad de Tránsito, March for Freedom and all the migrants and refugees on the planet

The process of globalization has enabled goods and services to travel over the entire planet. However, no opportunity is given for people in this process to change their place of residency. Given the ease with which individuals can move, the answer of the States was to tighten up migration laws. Mexico is an example of this situation. For many Latin…
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15 mayo, 2014
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Human rights defender Mr Omar Esparza Zárarte on hunger strike over impunity for the assassination of Bety Cariño English

Human rights defender Mr Omar Esparza Zárarte on hunger strike over impunity for the assassination of Bety Cariño

On April 29 2014, human rights defender Mr Omar Esparza Zárarte began a hunger strike, demanding that the Mexican and Oaxacan authorities end the four years of impunity for those responsible for the of killing human rights defender Ms Bety Cariño. Omar Esparza is a leader of Movimiento Agrario Indígena Zapatista (MAIZ) – The Zapatista Indigenous Agricultural Movement, and the…
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9 mayo, 2014