Federal Judge considers that the refusal of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico to send the Atenco case to the FGR is not duly justified and therefore violates the rights of the victims. San José, Costa Rica and Mexico City, November 29, 2020. Two years after the [...]
The local prosecutor's office seeks to avoid the unification of the criminal investigation in the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR, by its Spanish acronym). San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, Mexico, September 13, 2020. Almost two years after the notification of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) judgment in [...]
Mexico City, August 7, 2020. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) declared admissible the case of the 49 children who died as a result of the fire at the ABC Day Care Center in Hermosillo, Sonora on June 5, 2009, a tragedy that shook the country and is one of [...]
In the present Amicus Curiae, we present arguments on the unconstitutionality and unconventionality of various articles of the secondary laws related to the National Guard. Regarding the National Guard Law, we argue that Article 9, sections III, IV, V, XVIII, XXVI, XXIX, XXXVIII, and XXXII, as well as Articles 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, [...]
In view of the genetic identification of Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, carried out by the University of Innsbruck and verified by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF, by its Spanish acronym), we reiterate our solidarity and affection for his family and call for their privacy to be respected during this difficult moment. This identification [...]
It is unacceptable to prolong even for a day the violation of the rights to access to information, access to justice, and due process of detained migrants subject to international protection. The denial of access to migrant detention stations and provisional detention stations is not an isolated action, [...]
Although the arbitrary executions were confirmed, no official has been held accountable. The impunity surrounding the case sends a negative message in the context of the militarization of public security. Mexico City, June 30, 2019. Today is the fifth anniversary of the Tlatlaya massacre, when members of the Mexican Army killed arbitrarily at least [...]
- The creation of a Special Unit and the designation of its head are steps in the right direction. Mexico City, June 26, 2019. Today, 57 months after the enforced disappearance of 43 students in the city of Iguala on September 26, 2014, the “Agreement on the Creation of a Special Unit for the [...]
This is how the “historical truth” was fabricated. A video published by the media that shows a detainee in the Ayotzinapa case being tortured confirms the perpetration of human rights violations during the investigation into the students’ disappearance, as different international human rights bodies that had analyzed the case had already said. The video [...]
By complying with the judgment of the Inter-American Court, the Mexican government has the opportunity to reverse a decade of impunity. The UN Committee against Torture urged Mexico to comply with the judgment and raised the topic of sexual torture. Other women, such as Mónica Esparza -who has been imprisoned for 6 years-, have [...]