Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Violence Against Women and Girls


¡Stop the war against the people of Mexico and the world!

By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…

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They demand the freedom of 15 women prisoners in the San Cristóbal prison

Throughout Mexico, women are protesting violence against women and patriarchy with marches and other actions. This protest is relevant to Chiapas. By: Isaín Mandujano The Cereza Collective, a civilian organization for the legal support of women in Chiapas, today demanded…

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Given the increase of gender violence in Chiapas, women and girls marched on 25N

By: Orsetta Bellani Estefanía Martínez Matías was 22 years old, she was studying nursing and worked at a clothing store in Tuxtla Gutiérrez to pay for her studies. Her lifeless body was found on November 5 on the side of…

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