Ten Years After
Ten years after the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, their families continue their struggle for truth and justice and another possible world, as do the Zapatistas. We join them in that struggle.
Human Rights
We Denounce the Increase in Violence against Members of Frayba
The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights denounces the increase in attacks on its members and reaffirms its commitment to accompanying those who defend their human rights in Chiapas.
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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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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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More than Eight Thousand Victims during Dirty War: Report ‘It Was the State: 1965-1990’
It was the State! ‘In contrast to the official figure of 1,500 victims of the ‘Dirty War’, a period of government repression against dissidents, the MEH documented 8,594 victims of 11 serious human rights violations between 1965 and 1990, for which the State was responsible.”
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