Recognizing Human Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border 

Holocaust Museum Houston’s Engines of Change alum Cain Trevino will present his Together We Remember Coalition (TWR) fellowship project in this special presentation. He will highlight the work of the South Texas Human Rights Center (STHRC). For the past year, Trevino has worked closely with TWR and other immigrant rights groups to bring awareness to the human rights violations occurring on the U.S.-Mexico border. STHRC founder Eduardo Canales will discuss the organization’s work on the border and the future of the center.
In 2013, Eduardo Canales founded the South Texas Human Rights Center, where he organized community initiatives to prevent the deaths of migrants in Texas’s brush country and ranchlands. He gained permission to place water stations on country back roads and private ranches by confronting the private, powerful, and elite landowners on humanitarian grounds.
The South Texas Human Rights Center is a community-based organization in Falfurrias, Texas, dedicated to the promotion, protection, defense, and exercise of human rights and dignity in South Texas. Their mission is to end death and suffering on the Texas/Mexico border through community initiatives.