(EL PASO, Texas) – The Border Network for Human Rights today released it’s report detailing the findings of the 2012 abuse documentation campaign. To read and/or download the 2012 report, click here BNHR has been conducting campaigns to document human rights abuses in West Texas and Southern New Mexico since 2000. Each campaign is [...]
The State of Human Rights on the U.S.-mexico Border, 2012, By BNHR
Dear President Barack Obama: You can sign this petition online at Change.org During the last 30 years our communities on the U.S.-Mexico border have lived with an unprecedented wave of enforcement policies, strategies, and programs. Some of those have been designed to protect our country from real threats. But the vast majority have been ill-conceived [...]
(EL PASO, Texas) — The next national movement for equal rights is kicking off in El Paso. As part of the national Human Rights at Home campaign aimed at building a human rights movement, the Border Network for Human Rights has organized the El Paso Regional Human Rights Convention for February 18. The convention will [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is a special guest post from Dr. Luis I. Quiñones. Dr. Quiñones is an educator with more than 26 years of experience in public school education and an advocate of dual language/cultural education. He is also an author and publishes Las Razas Peace & Historical Calendar. He is also a cultural musicologist. [...]
EL PASO, Texas – Immigrant families and their supporters rallied in El Paso on Tuesday to call attention to what they describe as a “deadly combination”: U.S. deportation practices and Mexican cartel-related violence. Yanet Marquez, 24, spoke at the rally. Last month, the El Paso woman says, her husband was accidentally killed in a gang-related [...]
EL PASO, Texas – Familias de inmigrantes y sus simpatizantes se manifestaron este martes en El Paso para llamar la atención hacia lo que describen como una “combinación fatalâ€: las prácticas de deportación estadounidenses y la violencia relacionada con los cárteles Mexicanos. Yanet Márquez, de 24 años y residente de El Paso, habló durante la [...]
