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Digna Ochoa was a human rights lawyer who was murdered in 2001. On 26 April 2010, several human rights activists on their way to San Juan Copala, subject to a paramilitary blockade established since January, were ambushed by Ubisort-militia. Two were killed, and twelve are missing. [44]
According to the Human Rights Watch, Mexico has had a history of extrajudicial killings, torture, and "enforced disappearances", [7] [8] which began during the Mexican Dirty War when an estimated 1,200 people disappeared. [9] The disappearances were carried out by Mexico's government forces. [10]
The resultant public report "Double injustice" [191] is an independent inquiry focused on key aspects of the official investigation under the light of applicable international human rights standards, including the blatant evidence of arbitrary detentions and torture on 51 people indicted in connection to the crime. Although the report ...
A group of crime victims and women activists have taken over the offices of Mexico’s governmental Human Rights Commission, leading to a stand-off Tuesday in which both sides expressed worries ...
Mexico's Department of the Interior reportedly revoked funding on Friday for a conference on the government’s violent anti-insurgency policy from the 1960s to the 1980s, raising claims of ...
On April 3, 2020, members of the La Línea faction of the Juárez Cartel led by El 32 ambushed members of Gente Nueva del Jaguar y sus Lobos, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel led by El Jaguar, near Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua, Mexico. Nineteen people were killed in the ambush, and one was injured.
Presidents of the CNDH were originally designated by the President of the Republic.Since 1999 the President of the CNDH has been appointed by the Senate.. The President of the National Human Rights Commission exercises the legal representation of the Agency and is responsible for formulating the general guidelines for administrative activities and issuing specific measures deemed appropriate ...
Public information in Mexico is becoming more difficult to access under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a civil rights group said on Wednesday as it showed that scores of government ...