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Mexico: Shelve regressive bill to curb civil society groups

March 11, 2022 A bill being considered by Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies would severely restrict the work of civil society...

Americas: Amnesty International sounds alert over killings of human rights defenders and journalists in first month of 2022

February 2, 2022 With at least 20 human rights defenders and four journalists killed across the region in January, the...

Dignified justice for women human rights defenders in Mexico

By Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas Director 31 January 2021 On 19 October 2001, the human rights defender Digna Ochoa...

Mexico: Failings in investigations of feminicides in the State of Mexico violate women’s rights to life, physical safety and access to justice

Investigations by the State of Mexico Attorney General’s Office into feminicides preceded by disappearances are seriously flawed due to the...

Mexico: 114,000+ disappeared

Call on Mexico’s president to act on promises to stop the crisis of disappearances.

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Mexico: Authorities used illegal force and sexual violence to silence women protesting against gender-based violence

Mexican authorities repressed women who were peacefully protesting against gender-based violence in 2020, violating their rights to freedom of expression...

Mexico’s Government Must Protect Journalists, Not Endanger Them

By Duncan Tucker, Amnesty International’s Americas Media Coordinator Monday 9 November was a sad day for Mexican journalism. That morning,...

Mexico’s new National Guard is breaking its vow to respect human rights

By Amnesty Americas Media Manager Tuncan Tucker Jessica Silva and her husband Jaime Torres were driving through Delicias, a town...

Celebrate Mexico’s Day of the Dead and make visible the need to protect threatened earth defenders

The end of October is a time of traumatic memories for the Indigenous Rarámuri community of Coloradas de la Virgen...

Take Action to Support Mexico’s Mothers of the Disappeared

This Mother’s Day, amidst stay-at-home restrictions in both Canada and Mexico, we are in solidarity with the mothers of the...

Mexico: Amnesty International calls on Dr. López-Gatell to support the release of migrants due to COVID-19

Amnesty International sent an open letter today to the Undersecretary of Prevention and the Promotion of Health, Dr Hugo López-Gatell...

A courageous mother in Mexico needs our help now

By Kathy Price, Mexico Campaigner at Amnesty International Canada Her name is Hilda. Like me she is a mother filled...

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