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Urgent Action: Adequate relief and reconstruction needed in Mexico
A devastating earthquake hit Mexico on 19 September. Hundreds of people have died, thousands have been made homeless.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Security measures for defender implemented in Mexico
Authorities have implemented some security measures for Mario Luna, human rights defender.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Assailants burn human rights defender's car in Mexico
Unidentified intruders entered the residence of Mario Luna Romero, leader of the Indigenous Yaqui community in Sonora state, northern Mexico, and set fire to his partner’s car.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds stranded at Mexico–Guatemala border
Approximately 400 people from rural Guatemala are stranded at the Mexico-Guatemala border in temporary shelters and tents, without adequate access to water, food, or medical supplies, after a Guatemalan court order was executed to evict them.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: General law on torture improved and passed in Mexico
On 19 April the lower house of Mexican congress approved their version of the General Law on Torture and sent it back to the Senate for final approval before it becomes law.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
How to stir up a refugee crisis in five steps, Trump styleThis is how the Trump administration is stirring up what could dangerously become a full blown refugee crisis.
Blog post 07 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Vote on regressive torture bill imminent in MexicoThe Mexican lower house of Congress has until 30 April to vote on the General Law on Torture. The current version of the bill has amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Forty pairs of shoes go on display in London to highlight student disappearances in MexicoPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Indigenous leader killed, community at risk in Mexico
On 1 February, Indigenous leader Juan Ontiveros Ramos was found dead in Chihuahua State, northern Mexico.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Congress to vote on regressive torture bill in Mexico
The Mexican lower house of Congress has finalized its version of a General Law on Torture. This version of the bill has key amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture complaints.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds stranded on Mexico–US border at risk
Hundreds of displaced Haitians, Africans and internally displaced Mexicans are stranded in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Mexicali, many awaiting appointments with US Customs and Border Protection across the border.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Refuge for migrants under attack in Mexico
A soup kitchen for Mexican and Central American migrants has been vandalized in the northern Mexican city of Nogales, on the US border.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Jailed indigenous rights defender released
Mexican prisoner of conscience Ildefonso Zamora was released on 12 August after almost nine months in jail
Urgent action outcomes 17 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Judge rules in favour of Indigenous Defender
A federal judge in Mexico has ruled in favour of Indigenous rights defender Ildefonso Zamora who has been in prison since November 2015. The Attorney General should now accept that the case is baseless and refrain from appealing the ruling. This will be…
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Environmental defender must be released in Mexico
Ildefonso Zamora, an environment and territory defender from an Indigenous community in central Mexico, has been detained since November 2015 in an apparent attempt to stop him from speaking out against logging in the Great Water Forest in his ancestral…
Urgent action outcomes 11 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Authorities intimidating relatives of disappeared in MexicoUrgent action outcomes 12 Apr 2016
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Sexual and reproductive health across Latin America - Lottery style approach puts thousands at riskPress release 03 Mar 2016
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Face to face with her former torturer in MexicoOur researcher attended one of Mexico’s new ‘spoken’ trials as an observer. It was one of the first where a survivor of sexual torture gave testimony against the man who tortured her, a policeman.
Blog post 24 Nov 2015 -
Mexico: Torture is 'out of control'After dropping her children off at school, Miriam López was abducted by Mexican soldiers. They took her to a military base, where she was raped and tortured for seven days. But Miriam is not alone. Torture in Mexico is out of control and the authorities…
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