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7 Oct 2014

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Martin Ennals Award

Alejandra Ancheita Film Portrait - Martin Ennals Award Laureate 2014

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...An element of injustice in a country like Mexico is that there is only a group of very priveleged people who want to maintain this structure based on the discrimination and exclusion of the majority and the privilege of just a few. That injustice for me, has been an engine that has driven me to try to create conditions to eventually break these structures of inequality and exclusion...I decided to found ProDESC, and it's main goal is to protect and promote economic, social and cultural rights, rights of indigenous communities and communal farmers here in Mexico...It is very hard to explain outside Mexico what is happening in the country. We're in the middle of a structural crisis of violence against indigenous communities and towards human rights defenders...