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Pasta de Conchos Family Organisation: 10 Years Fighting Impunity

Mexico City, 19 February 2015.– 10 years ago today, on February 19, 2006, an enormous explosion left 65 miners trapped in the Mine no. 8 of the Pasta de Conchos Unit of “Grupo Mexico”´s coal mine in Coahuila. In the years following the disaster, family members of the victims have come together to highlight the precarious working conditions in the area and to demand the retrieval of their bodies of their loved ones (only two bodies have been retrieved to date).

February Newsletter is Out!

Mexico City, 4 February 2016.– Don't miss our February Newsletter for the latest news on Human Rights in Mexico!
Topics include: meeting of Diana Iris Garcia with UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Michel Forst; reports from Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders and Human Rights Watch; the Caravan to the Chimalapas; an interview with Sandra Velasco from Juan Gerardi HRC; and much more...

January Newsletter is out!

Mexico City, 13 January 2016.– Don't miss our January Newsletter for the latest news on Human Rights in Mexico!
Topics include: interview with UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Michel Forst; public statement from PBI regarding ‪the Ayotzinapa‬ case; CEMDA's report on the increase of violence against environmental defenders; an interview with Alberto Donis from Albergue Hermanos en el Camino, Ixtepec, Oaxaca; and much more...

Letter to all Member States of the United Nations General Assembly

Mexico City, 10 December 2015.– PBI and several other NGOs wrote a letter to all Member States of the United Nations General Assembly requesting for a vote in favour of a Human Rights Defenders Resolution in the General Assembly Plenary.

Download the letter.

VOTE IN FAVOUR OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS RESOLUTION IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLENARY  

Excellencies,

Information Pack PBI Mexico October 2015

Mexico City, 5 November 2015.– Don't miss our monthly Information Pack for October!
News include topics such as the UNHCHR visit to Mexico, Casa Del Migrante de Saltillo tour to Europe, Boston University Human Rights Clinic visit to Mexico, a video interview with Alberto Xicotencatl, Merida Initiative, and an interview with Lucha Castro from Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres