The government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with cuts to public spending in various areas. Health workers reported that they lacked access to personal protective equipment and the benefits needed to ensure a safe working environment. Reports of violence against women increased. Security...

In light of the severe and relentless violence against journalists in Mexico, the most dangerous country for the press in the Western Hemisphere, in 2022 Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began working on a joint project to identify areas of opportunity to...

In Mexico, the right to protest has been exercised by defenders of land, territory and the environment to demand respect for their rights, including self-determination, free, prior and informed consent in the case of Indigenous Peoples, a healthy environment, information and participation in...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations previously made to Mexico, including in relation to violence against women and girls, arbitrary arrest and detention, the national human rights commission, freedom of opinion and expression and accountability....

This joint report presents findings and recommendations regarding the end of the Title 42 policy and the implementation of punitive policies along the border, including the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. From May 10 to 12, adelegation of human, civil, and immigrants’ rights leaders saw...

Amnesty International, Comité de Víctimas 9N and Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos call the Governor-elect of the State of Quintana Roo to guarantee the right to a comprehensive reparation for the victims and survivors of police repression in Cancun on 9 November 2020.

Case poster for Wendy Galarza’s Write for Rights case

Case card for Wendy Galarza’s Write for Rights case

Amnesty International’s research has found that investigations into feminicides preceded by disappearance in the State of Mexico are failing because evidence is lost, the level of investigation is inadequate and a gender perspective is not applied correctly. In addition, families are re-victimized...

The governments of the USA and Mexico have deported tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children to their countries of origin, without adequate screenings for potential irreparable harm they could face there. Authorities of both countries have also denied unaccompanied migrant children...

The detention of migrants during a pandemic poses a serious risk to health and to life in Mexico because of the precarious conditions in detention centres and in general cannot be considered a justified or proportionate response, especially when the right to health cannot be guaranteed. Position of...

The Alliance for Inclusive Mobility in the Pandemic calls on the Mexican government, in order to abide by its international human rights obligations, to temporarily suspend, for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, deportations to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where people’s lives and...

Despite the fact that they were mostly peaceful, feminist demonstrations and protests against gender-based violence against women have started to be stigmatized as violent. The authorities have responded to these demonstrations, which are protected by the right to peaceful assembly, with excessive...