In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various states about ending torture, arbitrary arrests, the death penalty, for ...
In Mexico few cases of violence against women are reported and fewer still result in the prosecution or conviction of those responsible. Women or family members ...
Almost one in four women in Mexico has suffered physical or sexual violence at the hands of their partner. Many live with the constant threat of repeated violence ...
Journalists working with daily newspaper “El Diario de Juárez” and other media workers from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, are in danger after their colleague, ...
On 17 April, five members of Me’ phaa Indigenous People’s Organization (OPIM) were detained and charged with the murder of Alejandro Feliciano García on 1 January ...
Human rights defenders María Luisa García Andrade and Marisela Ortíz Rivera have received written death threats. The threats were sent within days of the screening ...
Bárbara Italia Méndez was detained on 4 May 2006 during protests in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State. Police officers beat her, threatened her and sexually assaulted ...
Local journalist, Carlos Solís Reina and Luis Alberto Salas Barajas have been transferred to a high security federal prison in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, and ...
On 10 October 2008, Carmelino Navarro Jiménez, a 9 year old boy, was attacked by a group of three men with weapons in Chiapas State. Carmelino Navarro was walking ...