The protection and enjoyment of a population’s human rights is likely the most important yardstick for evaluating whether or not a democracy is doing its job. In Mexico, the serious human rights crisis – which had worsened by the "War on Drug Trafficking" – fueled, to a large extent, a deep frustration with the [...]
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 [...]
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments, communities, and individuals are seeking guidance on the best ways to respond to this immense challenge. The human rights framework offers a relevant guide. The guidelines of various international bodies and the actions of civil society organizations attest to this. Both the United Nations and 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 [...]
San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, May 3, 2020. Today marks fourteen years since the events of social repression, massive arbitrary detentions, and systematic use of torture - including sexual torture - by state and federal police forces in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco, State of Mexico, Mexico, without substantial progress in [...]
The transition to a new ruling party in Mexicos federal government gave rise to enormous expectations about the possibility of advancing much needed changes in Mexico. Thus far, with respect to human rights, the result has been mixed, with examples both of positive actions aimed at reversing the persistent human rights crisis in the [...]
Yesterday, on March 12, 2020, the First District Judge of La Laguna, Torreón, in Coahuila state, acquitted Mónica Esparza and ordered her liberation, after seven years of unjust imprisonment. Mónica survived sexual torture, and her case is known as one of the most emblematic examples of extreme gender violence committed by Mexican state agents [...]
