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Javier Avila (Mexico)

Javier Avila (Mexico)

Co-founder of the Commission for Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights, A.C.

Jesuit Father who has lived in the Sierra Tarahumara since 1975 to this day.

He promoted and helped the integration of a horizontal dialogue table of the Inter-Institutional Program of Attention to the Indigenous (PIAI), unique in the country; where, civil society and the federal and state governments, established a dialogue to deal with issues related to the interests of the indigenous peoples of Chihuahua

In 1989 he founded with the Bishop José Alberto Llaguno, the Commission of Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights, A.C. (COSYDDHAC), the first institution of its kind in the country, whose career and work in favor of the defense, education and dissemination of human rights is widely recognized in Mexico and abroad. He has been a sensitive person in the face of the inequality and the need that exists in the Sierra but at the same time he has known the Raramuri culture in depth which has allowed him to understand his worldview.

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