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“For us, any consultation to be realized now is illegal, because it should have taken place 10 years ago. Now we want respect for our common land, 68,154 hectares that we were recognized by presidential resolution in 1964″, complained Mariano Gómez López, spokesman for the Popular Assembly of the Juchiteco People (APPJ). Currently, there are more than 15 wind farms…

MEXICO / GENEVA (12 June 2014) – United Nations human rights expert Christof Heyns today warned that “violations of the right to life take place at an unacceptably high rate in Mexico.” Mr. Heyns urged the Mexican authorities to address the situation head on and put an end to impunity. “The realization of the right to life is under serious…

JUCHITAN DE ZARAGOZA, México (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The ever-breezy Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow land bridge between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, is turning into an international wind-farm mecca. At least a dozen companies from around the world, anxious to take advantage of Oaxaca’s abundant clean energy opportunities and Mexico’s access to carbon-reduction…

As the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict starts in London, we hear the stories of three victims turned activists. One of the activists is Valentina Rosendo Cantú from Mexico, who has sought justice for her rape for 12 years. Read below an extract of her testimony: "In February 2002, when I was 17 years old, members of…