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María Mendoza Lucas

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Derechos: 
#Derechos LGBT+
#Derechos de los indígenas
#Derecho a la tierra
Ubicación: 
#Region: Americas
#México

Maria Mendoza Lucas es una defensora de derechos humanos indígena, mujer trans, danzante, que ha ejercido su defensa de derechos humanos en causas sociales en Oaxaca. Especialmente, la defensa de del derecho a la vivienda de los pueblos mazatecos en Eloxochitlán de Flores de Magón, donde se ha opuesto a la gentrificación y promueve los derechos culturales y a la autodeterminación por medio de la medicina tradicional.

Human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in Mexico are subject to intimidation, legal harassment, arbitrary detention, death threats, acts of physical aggression, enforced disappearances and killings as a result of their activities in defence of human rights and the exercise of freedom of expression and journalism.

 

Disappearances are endemic in Mexico, often happening with collusion from the state. HRDs working on the issue face serious risk, up to and including death. HRDs working in the defence of territory, particularly indigenous territory, face a similar level of risk. They are criminalised, imprisoned, defamed, and often killed. Journalists working on any of these issues, or issues related to the drugs trade and the government's complicity in this, also run the risk of losing their lives.

#Mexico
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