UN Expresses Deep Concern over Militarization of Public Security in Mexico

Despite noting some positive developments, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights observed continuing problems, such as arbitrary detention remaining a widespread in Mexico and expressed its deep concern about the militarization of public security, the concept of preventive detention, and the abuse of force during detentions in the country.

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The Lacandon “Is a Powder Keg,” Warn Those Displaced by Organized Crime

“They denounced in the letter that they made public, that members of the Lacandon community are already part of organized crime groups, “Lacandon brothers have unfortunately allied themselves with criminals, endangering our rights as an ancestral indigenous people, placing our territories at the service of these organizations and controlling all families,” and those who oppose are threatened, and in some cases, disappeared, they said.”

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Indigenous women from five collectives, concerned about the spread of organized crime in their communities.

Indigenous women from across the state gathered in Tonalá this past weekend to analyze and share the struggles they face in their territories, to heal, and to strengthen their organization.

These assemblies provide a much-needed forum for building networks and fortifying the efforts in each community.

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What Happens Next?

Despite the fact that recent reforms have been presented by the government as a radical transformation of the judicial system, serious reservations have been expressed as regards the protection of human rights. “On September 12th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a statement expressing its concern about the approval of the judicial reform in terms of the impact it would have on the rights of access to justice and due process, as well as the rule of law, especially when it remains to encompass and transform other institutions in charge of administering justice where the first contacts to guarantee human rights occur.”

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