Mexico

Human Rights in UNITED MEXICAN STATES

Suggested recommendations to the 16 States in the fourth round of ...
1 December 2008

In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various states about ending torture, arbitrary arrests, the death penalty, for ...

Document       IOR 41/046/2008

Mexico: Justice for Women: Violence in the family in Mexico
1 December 2008

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 ...

Document       AMR 41/057/2008

Mexico: Protection for Women: Violence in the family in Mexico
1 December 2008

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 ...

Document       AMR 41/056/2008

Mexico: Fear for safety
21 November 2008

Journalists working with daily newspaper “El Diario de Juárez” and other media workers from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, are in danger after their colleague, ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/061/2008

Mexico: Prisoners of conscience
14 November 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/059/2008

Mexico: Further information on fear for safety/ death threats
7 November 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/058/2008

BÁRBARA ITALIA MÉNDEZ – MÉXICO
29 October 2008

BÁRBARA ITALIA MÉNDEZ – MÉXICO

Document       AMR 41/041/2008

Mexico: Bárbara Italia Méndez [Global letter-writing marathon ...
29 October 2008

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 ...

Document       AMR 41/041/2008

Mexico: Further Information on Fear for safety
29 October 2008

Local journalist, Carlos Solís Reina and Luis Alberto Salas Barajas have been transferred to a high security federal prison in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/055/2008

Mexico: Fear for safety
24 October 2008

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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/054/2008