Map

The Spotlight initiative aims to create tools and resources to deepen the understanding of the border and animate social change. Through digital mapping, storytelling, and participatory popular education methodologies, we aim to highlight the complex topographies and cartographies of human rights at the border.

The human rights map provides a visual narrative of the effects of militarization and deterrence on border communities and those migrating through the U.S.-Mexico border region. This map also displays a set of human rights indicators to facilitate monitoring, progress, and fulfilling governments’ obligations in protecting the rights of migrants, refugees, and communities along the borderlands.