Who we protect

The project focuses on accompanying indigenous communities and environmental activists countering the impact of militarization.

Fighting impunity/ upholding and strengthening indigenous rights/ empowering women

• Continued accompaniment of the lawyers of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre and Obtilia Eugenio Manuel of the Organisation of the Me’Phaa Indigenous People (OPIM) for their work exposing the rape of indigenous women by the military in 1997 and other abuses, for which they have suffered death threats, surveillance, harassment and intimidation.
• Protection for Tita Radilla, Vice-president of AFADDEM, for her investigations into the disappearances of the 1970s.
• Protection for the Cerezo Committee who campaign to raise awareness of the situation of prisoners of conscience.

Exposing environmental abuses

• Continued presence for members of the women’s environmental organisation OMESP (Organization of Women Ecologists of the Sierra of Petatlán).  OMESP is campaigning against the illegal logging of the forest in the Petatlán highlands and exposing abuses of power by civilian and military state officials in the area.