Centro Prodh — Protocolo de seguridad para marchas y acciones
Summary
The Mexican human-rights organisation Centro Prodh’s printable security protocol for marches and protest actions in high-risk contexts — marshal positions, communication trees, and arrestee-tracking sheets.
Body
Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centro Prodh) is a Mexican human-rights legal centre that has represented victims of state and paramilitary violence since 1988; its Protocolo de seguridad para marchas y acciones is the operational security protocol the centre developed for human-rights defenders organising public actions in Mexico’s high-risk environment [source: centro-prodh-protocolo-marcha]. The protocol’s underlying assumption is that the action must be planned as if the police response could be hostile — even when the action is nominally peaceful and declared [source: centro-prodh-protocolo-marcha].
Coverage: marshal positions — pre-defined marshal points at the head, sides, and tail of a march, with role sheets distributed at the staging area; communication tree — the chain of contacts (legal observer, lawyer, jail support, ambulance, family) and the triggers for escalation up the tree; arrestee tracking — a single-sheet tracking form that follows each person from arrest through release; evidence preservation — the cameras, witness lists, and contemporaneous notes the legal team needs to defend the action in court [source: centro-prodh-protocolo-marcha]. The protocol is explicit that in high-risk contexts, the action’s first goal is the safety of the participants; the political message is secondary until everyone is safe and free.
Published as CC-BY-NC in the lists — short quotes and adaptation with attribution; verify on the document itself [source: centro-prodh-protocolo-marcha]. The protocol is the natural partner of Comité Cerezo’s security manual (T3 owner) and Front Line Defenders’ protection planning template (T2 owner) for Latin American contexts.
Use it for
Designing a security protocol for an ES-language action in a high-risk context; integrating marshal positions, communication tree, and arrestee tracking into one printable document.
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Open Questions
- Confirm current URL; Centro Prodh periodically updates the protocol.
- Verify the CC-BY-NC license line on the actual document.
- Note Mexico-jurisdiction specifics; for ES-speaking contexts elsewhere, pair with jurisdiction-specific KYR.