EXPANSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS CENTERS BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

Through the Frontera Texas Organizing Project, the BNHR opened two new Human Rights Centers in September 2022, defense and promotion of human and constitutional rights of border residents and migrant families. The centers are located in the City of Presidio (Marfa-Presidio-Big Bend Region) and the City of Del Rio (Del Rio-Eagle Pass Region) at the Texas-Mexico border. The two centers serve as focal points for Texas border communities to denounce and document civil rights and human law enforcement agencies, as well as inhumane border strategies.

This is an essential milestone for BNHR after many years of hard work and advocacy. Unfortunately, it is also evidence of the severe and shameful increase in human rights violations and abuses

Operation Lone Star.

MEASURABLE PROGRESS:

Now, through these centers, border communities will be able to find a much-needed platform to get informed, trained, and empowered to defend their most basic human rights. BNHR has trained 70 local community leaders in the regions mentioned above to protect and promote human rights and document human rights violations by law enforcement authorities.