The Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group at the Department of International Development invites you to attend a discussion on the topic 'Extractivism, violence, and indigenous movements in Mexico'.

Over the past few years, indigenous communities and territories in south-eastern Mexico have been sites of a marked increase in violence – including community displacement, harassment, and armed conflict – from both state and non-state actors, often in the context of a generalised regional encroachment of extractive economies and infrastructure projects upon indigenous territories.

We are happy to welcome a delegation of both the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Chiapas-based 'Fray Bartolomé De Las Casas' Human Rights Centre to speak about the contemporary situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico, in the context of important shifts in the political economy of extractivism and infrastructure the country has seen over recent years. In particular, the panel will be speaking on the forms of neo-colonial state and non-state violence communities resisting extractivism across the country have been subjected to, and the more recent wave of violence threatening indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

National Indigenous Congress (CNI for its acronym in Spanish) represents 43 indigenous nations across 523 communities and 25 states in Mexico, and has for years been at the forefront of indigenous struggles in Mexico.

'Fray Bartolomé De Las Casas' Human Rights Centre is a human rights organisation based in the state of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, where it has provided local and indigenous communities with legal support against human rights abuses for over three decades.