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, [...]
The human rights crisis that has plagued Mexico, aggravated by the so-called “War on Drugs”, has produced tens of thousands of victims of state and criminal violence –and, particularly, violence within the intersection between the two– which translates into an immeasurable number of broken lives and suffering. This, however, is not the only face [...]
A year after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights´ judgment, the victims and their representatives call on the Mexican government to maintain its commitment and comply with the ordered reparations in their entirety. San José, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, Mexico, December 16, 2019. A year after the Inter-American Court of Human [...]
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 [...]
Mexico City, April 4, 2019. Today, the inter-institutional working group to implement the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) in the case of Women Victims of Sexual Torture in Atenco was officially formed. A delegation of the women and their legal representatives, as well as representatives of several federal [...]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs appeals against an order to recognize the jurisdiction of the UN and misses opportunity to keep proving its commitment to fighting the crisis of disappearances in Mexico The Trujillo Herrera family, with the support of Center Prodh, files a legal remedy in favor of the order of the Judiciary. [...]
Mexico City, March 15, 2019. On Friday, March 8, a federal judge ordered the release of 21 detainees, including 8 police officers, accused of organized crime for the Tierra Blanca case, which took place on January 11, 2016, when 5 young Mexicans were disappeared and subsequently executed in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, by state police [...]
