Mexican Academy for Human Rights
This page contains a description of the Mexican Academy for Human Rights
and its weekly Chiapas Special Bulletin.
About the AMDH
The Mexican Academy for Human Rights (Academia Mexicana
de Derechos Humanos, AMDH) was founded in 1984 by a group of
academic and social movement leaders, government officials,
opposition leaders, scientists and artists. Since then, the
AMDH, has been working in the areas of research, teaching,
analysis, documentation, training, promotion and dissemination
of human rights information in Mexico.
The AMDH has several programs which allow us to attain
our goals. These programs are: Education, Political Rights,
Mass Media, Documentation Unit and Communications.
The Education Program is in charge of organizing specialized
human rights courses as well as workshops focused on
college students.
The Political Rights Program established in
1991, promotes democratic participation; it was
also responsible for training and organizing electoral observers
during the 1994 federal elections in Mexico.
The Mass
Media Monitoring Project has been working since 1993 to
determine whether the right to information is being respected.
The Documentation Unit carries one of the most
specialized collections on human rights in Mexico and is open to the public.
And, the Communications Program, which has the objective of
producing audio-visual and printed material that provides
support in teaching and promotion of human rights.
Among
the Communication Program's projects is the "Special Chiapas
Bulletin" which we present to you in this space.
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About the Chiapas Special Bulletin
The armed conflict in the southern state of Chiapas has turned into
a detonator of the Mexican society and its political system. The
respect and enforcement of human rights is an unavoidable demand in
building peace, solving the grave problems in our country and for
the transition to democracy.
In this context, the Mexican Academy of Human Rights resumes
with this issue the publication of its Chiapas Special Bulletin, with
the purpose of providing systematized information in the form of a
summary of the most relevant events. We will also be dealing with
a variety of human rights topics.
The bulletin will include a "chronological synthesis" of the
most important events; a "follow up of news," to corroborate or
elaborate on the information in order to attain veracity and
objectivity; and a section called "space for the exchange of
information among the NGO's."