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Mexico: Community activists in Mexico receive threats
5 February 2013

Community activists opposing the construction of wind farm turbines in Oaxaca State, Mexico have received threats. Members of the protest camp opposing the construction ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/004/2013

Mexico: Fear for security of shelter staff in Mexico
7 January 2013

Members of Belén Migrant Shelter (Casa del migrante - Posada Belén), in Saltillo, Coahuila state, northern Mexico have been subjected to threats and information ...

Document       AMR 41/001/2013

Mexico: Open letter to the President concerning human rights
18 December 2012

In this letter, Amnesty International raises questions and concerns about serious and widespread violations of human rights in Mexico. These violations intensified ...

Open Letter       AMR 41/078/2012

Mexico: New President must break with legacy of human rights ...
18 December 2012

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto must implement immediate and concrete measures to tackle some of the country's most pressing human rights issues.

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Americas: Transforming pain into hope: Human rights defenders in ...
7 December 2012

Human rights defenders in the Americas have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of human rights. However, as the clamour for human rights has grown ...

Report       AMR 01/006/2012

Mexico: Transforming pain into hope: human rights defenders in the ...
7 December 2012

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Postcard       AMR 41/061/2012

Mexico: Victims' family burgled, in danger
6 December 2012

Five members of a family in western Mexico were subjected to enforced disappearance in the early 1970s. The rest of the family have been seeking truth and justice ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/076/2012

Mexico: Prisoners of conscience released
29 November 2012

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: AMR 41/074/2012 29 November 2012 Mexico: Prisoners of Conscience released Amnesty International welcomes the ...

Public Statement       AMR 41/074/2012

Mexico: Further information: Protestors threatened with violence
26 October 2012

On 24 October 2012, a protest camp of communal landowners and striking miners was destroyed and burnt outside La Platosa silver mine in La Sierrita, northwest Mexico ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/071/2012

Mexico: Activist leader and wife killed in Mexico
25 October 2012

An environmental activist leader and his wife have been killed in Chihuahua state, northern Mexico. This event follows a pattern of death threats and there are ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/070/2012