PSYDEH’s multi-year Program has been awarded funding from INMUJERES to produce 2015 Project work that builds on 2014 Project progress. With anticipated success in 2015, we have reason to hope that funding proposals to INMUJERES in 2016 and 2017 will yield modest increases in support of our collaboration with indigenous women leaders in the Region. [kkstarratings]
Indigenous Women Organization members and PSYDEH participate in a statewide collective promoting ideas to candidates seeking federal office in 2015 elections and candidates who plan to run for state and local office in 2016. Recommendations include: Strengthen state mechanisms that protect human rights defenders and journalists, Guarantee sufficient budgets for the mechanisms and organs created by […]
In early spring 2015, PSYDEH was selected as Hidalgo’s only NGO representative on the Mexican Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indigenas‘ (CDI) Consejo Consultivo de la CDI for the term 2015-2018. The national citizen board advises on indigenous policy, program and actions. [kkstarratings]
PSYDEH’s collaboration with indigenous women leaders is highlighted in edition 24 (December) of Hidalgo, Mexico monthly magazine 451 EFE. Here, we include a brief description of PSYDEH and our Photo Exhibition amidst 6 pages of images of our women partners from the Region, on the cover and pages 19-23. [kkstarratings]
On November 18, 2014, 125 indigenous and non-indigenous Mexicans and citizens from New Zealand, the United States and Canada convened for a regional public forum in the municipality of Acaxochitlán, Hidalgo. With support from the local governments of Acaxochitlán, Tenango de Doria, San Bartolo Tutotepec and Huehuetla, PSYDEH facilitated a day of work where women […]