Mexico City, 27 december 2016.- PBI reiterates its concerns regarding the threats, harassment and persecution suffered by members of the Cerezo Committee in recent months. It is worth remembering that on September 30, a drawing with a death threat against the Cerezo Contreras brothers, appeared on a wall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Languages of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
Mexico City, 15 December 2016.– Don't miss our December Newsletter for the latest news on Human Rights in Mexico!
Topics include: Pasta de Conchos Family Organisation undertakes Advocacy Tour through Europe; visit of the special follow-up Mechanism to the Ayotzinapa case; Report "Operation Oaxaca"-Nochixtlán; Juan Gerardi' risk situation; amongst others.
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Mexico City, 9 November 2016.– Don't miss our November Newsletter for the latest news on Human Rights in Mexico!
Topics include: Tlachinollan speaking tour in the USA; death threats against the Cerezo Committee; recommendations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Mexico; PBI visit to Acapulco; amongst others.
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Mexico City, 14 October 2016.– Don't miss our October Newsletter for the latest news on Human Rights in Mexico!
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Mexico City, 13 September 2016.- The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights visited Mexico for the first time on an official visit between 29 August and 17 September 2016. As part of its mandate the Working Group should promote the effective implementation of the 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights'1. During the visit, members of the group met with Mexican government entities and companies.
Mexico City, 7 September 2016.– Don't miss our September Newsletter for the latest news on Human Rights in Mexico!
Topics include: General Law on Disappearances; 15th Anniversary of the Cerezo Committee; visit of the Finnish Embassy to Oaxaca; Tlachinollan's 22nd Anniversary; Preventative Alert in Chihuahua; PBI accompaniments to the Sierra Tarahumara, Atoyac de Alvarez, Ciudad Juarez and El Paso; International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances; amongst others.
Mexico City, 15 August 2016.– On 19 August, PBI volunteers accompanied the organisations Tierra Nativa, COSYDDHAC and CONTEC to a meeting of the Regional Consultative Council of the Copper Canyon. Various issues were covered in the meeting in relation the tourism project, which led the local communities to write an official letter to President of the Republic Enrique Peña Nieto in 2014.