* Rapporteur on Immigrant Workers request to visit Mexico this year

* Commissioners expressed that the number of kidnapped immigrants is chilling and constitutes a massive violation of human rights

 As part of a public hearing in the 138° session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held in March 22, 2010 in Washington D.C., the civil society organizations which are isgnatories of this statement presented the issue of systematic and widespread kidnapping of immigrants in Mexico, committed by organized crime with the complicity of authorities as a result of a restrictive immigration policy, with a slight human rights perspective.

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Certainly there will be no lack of governmental references to International Women's Day; however, beyond the statements it should be noted that there is no commitment to the rights of women in the Mexican state. Within the country, exclusion, discrimination and aggression remain to be a constant problem against them. Such affirmation arises from the participation of the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) in the accompanying, denounce and defense of two cases that demonstrate the mentioned above: the lack of commitment to enforce the rights of women complaining of sexual torture committed in the frame of the Atenco Operative on 3-4 May 2006 and the unjust sentence against the Prisoners of Conscience Alberta Alcántara and Teresa Gonzalez, accused of a crime that never existed.

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 * The relatives of 28 miners, Center Prodh, ENPL, and Cereal presented the petition in their search for justice and to demand full compensation for damage

* During the past four years the State has showed inefficient and biased attitudes toward the families' demands; the most persistent request of the families has been the recovery of the remains of the dead miners.

 On the fourth anniversary of the explosion in the Pasta de Conchos coal mine, where 65 miners were killed, 235 relatives of 28 of the victims have filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accompanied by the Center for Labor Reflection and Action for Cultural and Educational Development (Cereal), the National Pastoral Labor Group (ENPL) and the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) in order to access justice and full reparation for the suffering and damages inflicted on the families.

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The Center for Labor Research and Solidarity and Center PRODH requested the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as a matter of urgency, to implement precautionary measures to protect the life and physical integrity of the human rights defender Cipriana Jurado Herrera because of the imminent risk to which she is subjected following the murder of her colleague, the activist Josefina Reyes, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. 

Cipriana Jurado and Josefina Reyes have publicly denounced the human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, committed in Ciudad Juarez in the context of military operations on public security. In the last year, Mrs. Jurado, director of the Center for Labor Research and Solidarity, has been defending cases involving abuses committed by military personnel that have participated in Joint Operation Chihuahua.

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