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Looking out for Human Rights Defenders: PBI Interview with Michel Forst, new Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)

Paris, 2 July, 2014.

PBI: You have recently taken up the post of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (June, 2014). Have you identified priorities (geographic or thematic) for the next few months? Have you scheduled any field visits?

PBI Mexico: PBI Expreses Grave Concern Over Increase in Risk Faced by HRDs in the States of Guerrero and Oaxaca

Situation in Guerrero:

PBI expresses profound concern for the security of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, accompanied by PBI since 2003, and for the Guerrero Network of Civil Society Organizations and the Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon Regional Human Rights Center, all of which accompany students from the “Raul Isidro Burgos” Rural Teachers School of Ayotzinapa and families of the 43 students who disappeared on the nights of September 26-27, 2014.

PBI Mexico: Joint open letter calling on the European Union to take urgent action on the violent events in Iguala, Mexico, which left 6 persons dead, over 20 injured, and 43 disappeared

 

 

Baroness Catherine Ashton

High Representative of the European Union

for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Ms Federica Mogherini

Designated High Representative of the European

Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Tlachinollan: URGENT ACTION Grave Human Rights Violations Committed Against Students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural School on 26 September, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero

PBI expresses profound concern over the events of the 26-27 of september in Iguala, Guerrero in which 6 people were killed, 20 injured and 55 more have disappeared. We are also concerned for the physical and psychological wellbeing of the students, their families and the members of human rights organizations that are supporting them, among them the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center, accompanied by PBI in Guerrero since 2001. 

 

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