The work of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Frayba) Center for Human Rights on behalf of the indigenous people of Chiapas, Mexico, will be highlighted at a program on Tuesday, Nov. 29, at Cal State San Bernardino.
Luisella Preciado, a human rights defender and attorney with the FrayBa Center for Human Rights, will present “Walking with Subjects of History: Indigenous Communities' Fight for Autonomy and Human Rights in Chiapas, Mexico, and Beyond” at noon in the John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005.
The program is free and open to the public; parking at CSUSB is $6.
The Frayba Center for Human Rights is a non-profit organization, independent of any government or political ideology or religious creed. Founded in 1989 through the initiative of Samuel Ruiz García, a Catholic bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Frayba has a Christian inspiration and ecumenical inspiration.
As part of her work with Frayba, Preciado helps advocate for indigenous peoples fighting for their rights as autonomous, self-determining communities. She listens to, and documents, the testimonies of people standing up for their rights and becoming subjects of their own history. Working with them, Preciado and her coworkers at FrayBa analyze the events within the surrounding political context to pressure governments and society to respect the original peoples of Mexico.
The lecture is sponsored by the CSUSB Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the CSUSB University Diversity Committee.
For more information on the program, contact Michal Kohout, associate professor of geography and environmental studies, at (909) 537-7325.