Based on our method of international accompaniment, we strive to create protection, legitimacy, support and international solidarity with human rights defenders who are threatened because of the work they do. We initiate accompaniment after we have conducted a collaborative process of analysis and reached an agreement with the organisation.
The Digna Ochoa A. C. Human Rights Center is a non-profit civil association dedicated to working for the defense and promotion of human rights, focused on the defence of land and territory, women’s rights and community defenders. Their main focus is on legal counselling and defence, training and capacity building and accompaniment of organisations and communities. They carry out their work in the isthmus coast region of Chiapas.
The Frayba Human Rights Center is a non-profit and non-governmental, civil society organisation, independent of any political ideology or religious creed. Founded in 1989 at the initiative of Samuel Ruiz García, then Catholic bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, the Frayba Human Rights Center is inspired by Christianity and ecumenism. The Center works for the defence and promotion of human rights, especially the rights of indigenous peoples and communities in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
The Chiapas Women’s Rights Centre is a Mexican non-profit civil association dedicated to the construction of a culture without inequalities and the exercise of human rights, through a constant process that involves improvements on an individual and collective levels for the better development of women, as a vulnerable human group, from within the spaces of civil society.
The Cerezo Committee is a Mexican human rights organisation, dedicated to documenting human rights violations regarding unjust and arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, as well as extrajudicial killings. It also carries out human rights education work through different workshops on the subject. Over the course of its more than 15 years of work in defending human rights in Mexico, the Cerezo Committee has gained recognition nationally and internationally.
Pueblo Creyente (The Believing People of Simojovel) is a Catholic movement dedicated to the construction of peace, the defence of land and territory, and opposing violence through civil and peaceful resistance. The movement is led by the priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, parish priest of Simojovel and coordinator of the social ministry of the three Dioceses of the Province of Chiapas. Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez accompanies various processes, such as the defence of land and territory. He also mediates in intercommunity conflicts and accompanies displaced communities.
The Committee for the Promotion and Defence of Life “Samuel Ruiz García” is one of the 11 committees that make up the Parish Council of Chicomuselo.
It is dedicated to the promotion and defence of human rights, focusing on the defence of land and territory, the rights of families, women, children and adolescents. It works to strengthen catechists and community promoters, offering them education and training in human rights. It also has an area of legal advice and defence. It carries out its work in the Sierra de Chiapas border region.